Tests at WTC Site Find No Health Risk
Tests of air, dust and water in and around the World Trade Center site have uncovered no major risks to people’s health, government agencies said Wednesday.
“Our data show that contaminant levels are low or nonexistent and are generally confined to the Trade Center site,” Christie Todd Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said in a statement.
Metal levels in water runoff were higher than normal but not perilous, officials said.
Higher deadly dioxin levels were detected but will drop once all fires are extinguished, the officials said.
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