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Diesel Soot Health Impacts

Diesel & Health in America:
Diesel Soot Health Impacts
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Duval County

The lifetime cancer risk from diesel soot in your community exceeds the risk of all other air toxics tracked by EPA combined.

  • The average lifetime diesel soot cancer risk for a resident of Duval County is 1 in 3,225.

  • This risk is 310 times greater than EPA's acceptable cancer level of 1 in a million.

Find out how this risk was calculated; understand how your risk might be higher; an explanation of 1-in-a-million acceptable risk

Annual Diesel Fine Particle Health Impacts Projected in 2010:

Adults
40Premature Deaths
41Non-Fatal Heart Attacks
837Asthma Attacks
24Chronic Bronchitis
4,989Work Loss Days (WLD)
28,805Minor Restricted Activity Days (MRAD)

How the analysis was performed


How the Risk from Diesel Soot in Duval County Compares to Other Counties Nationally:

National Rank: 209 of 3,109 counties

93%
v
0% 10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%
healthiest Counties[PERCENTILE]unhealthiest Counties

What are percentiles?


How the Risk from Diesel Soot in Duval County Compares to Other Florida Counties:

Rank Within State: 4 of 67 counties

State map showing cancer risk from diesel soot


Lifetime Cancers per Million People in Duval County:

        310
        40
       
  Inhaled
Diesel
Soot
  Other
Inhaled
Toxics
 

How did CATF compare the risk of diesel
particulate to other air toxics?


Diesel Emissions (2005):

Pollutant Annual Tons
per Year
Highway
(on road)
Heavy Equipment
(non road)
NOx 11,642 7,856 3,787
PM2.5 574 232 342
PM10 622 269 353
CO 4,670 2,727 1,943
VOC 936 517 420
SO2 779 246 534

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