Diesel Soot Health Impacts
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:
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| 0% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% |
| healthiest Counties | [PERCENTILE] | unhealthiest Counties | ||||||||
How the Risk from Diesel Soot in Grafton County Compares to Other New Hampshire Counties:
Lifetime Cancers per Million People in Grafton County:
| 99 |
29 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhaled Diesel Soot |
Other Inhaled Toxics |
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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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