Scholarly Articles The Greenberg and Schneider (1994) article published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal explores the potential value of superfund sites that have been at least partially remediated. Questionnaires were collected from New Jersey residents within one-half mile of 3 superfund sites listed on the National Priorities List (Lipari landfill, Helen Kramer landfill, and Gloucester Environmental Management Services landfill). The study tested four hypothesizes, 1) Americans living near sites that had been substantially remediated would rate their neighborhoods better than neighborhoods with sites that have not been remediated and about the same as residents of neighborhoods in their region as a whole, 2) recent residents …show more content…
Through review of current process and procedures, identification of two missing evaluation elements key to superfund sites’ impact on surrounding communities is identified. There are still hundreds of superfund sites that have been listed on the NPL for over 20 years and new sites are continually being added or proposed. New superfund sites are identified by various parties with no set process of evaluation or potential residential risk exposure determination which causes delays and may cause potential sites to be overlooked. It is not until a superfund site has been identified that a set of criteria is applied which pertains to the investigation and cleanup plan. The evaluations provide qualitative information but lack quantitative data as it relates to potential exposure from exposure routes. Improving exposure characterization is believed to be a pathway to increasing efficacy as well as diminishing the length of time for the entire process. Also, by utilizing exposure science, identification of population groups at potential risk is more effective and should be continually evaluated throughout the