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TTC-69, Big Rigs & Waller County Air Quality..
 
Residents of Waller County,
These 2005 statistics will only get worse for us with the TTC - 69 bringing the county more big rigs from the MEXICAN fleets which are not required to follow the same "rules of the road" as U.S. drivers & rigs.  
 
Where You Live
Waller County
The lifetime cancer risk from diesel soot in  (y)our  community exceeds the risk of all other air toxics tracked by EPA combined.
  • The average lifetime diesel soot cancer risk for a resident of Waller County is 1 in 4,043.

     

  • This risk is 247 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 Waller County Compares to Other Counties Nationally:

National Rank: 502 of 3,109 counties
84%
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 Waller County Compares to Other Texas Counties:

Rank Within State: 17 of 254 counties

State map showing cancer risk from diesel soot

Lifetime Cancers per Million People in Waller County:

        247
         28
        
  Inhaled
Diesel
Soot		   Other
Inhaled
Toxics		  

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


 

Diesel Emissions (1999):

Pollutant Annual Tons
per Year		 Highway
(on road)		 Heavy Equipment
(non road)
NOx 1,110 702 408
PM2.5 48 23 25
PM10 53 26 27
CO 297 172 125
VOC 69 37 32
SO2 53 18 35

 
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Last updated: 06/02/08.