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Grafton 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 Grafton County is 1 in 10,130.

  • This risk is 99 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

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

National Rank: 2,065 of 3,109 counties

34%
v
0% 10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%
healthiest Counties[PERCENTILE]unhealthiest Counties

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How the Risk from Diesel Soot in Grafton County Compares to Other New Hampshire Counties:

Rank Within State: 8 of 10 counties

State map showing cancer risk from diesel soot


Lifetime Cancers per Million People in Grafton County:

        99
        29
       
  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 2,485 2,104 381
PM2.5 94 62 33
PM10 105 72 34
CO 674 493 180
VOC 135 96 39
SO2 117 63 54

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