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USGS environmental studies of the World Trade Center area, New York City, after September 11, 2001

Fact Sheet 050-02
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https://doi.org/10.3133/fs05002

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Abstract

Two days after the September 11, 2001, attack on World Trade Center (WTC), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) was asked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Public Health Service to conduct a remote sensing and mineralogical characterization study of lower Manhattan around the WTC. This study, conducted in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), was requested to rapidly provide emergency response teams with information on the concentrations and distribution of asbestos and other materials in the dusts deposited around lower Manhattan after the September 11 WTC building collapse in New York City. 

Preliminary results of the study were released via the internet to emergency response teams on September 18 and September 27, 2001. After September 27, additional work was done to fill remaining data gaps, and the study report underwent further detailed peer review. The report was released to the general public via the internet on November 27, 2001. This fact sheet summarizes the results of the interdisciplinary study; the full report can be viewed at http://geology.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-01-0429/ .

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title USGS environmental studies of the World Trade Center area, New York City, after September 11, 2001
Series title Fact Sheet
Series number 050-02
DOI 10.3133/fs05002
Edition Version 1.0
Year Published 2002
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Office of the AD Energy and Minerals, and Environmental Health
Description 4 p.
Country United States
State New York
City New York City
Other Geospatial World Trade Center complex
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