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Dover Township, Ocean County, New Jersey

The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS), with support from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), conducted an epidemiologic study of childhood cancers in Dover Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.

In 1996, ATSDR and NJDHSS developed a Public Health Response Plan in cooperation with the Ocean County Health Department and the Citizens’ Action Committee on Childhood Cancer Cluster. The plan outlined a series of public health activities, including assessments of potential environmental exposures in the community. In 1997, ATSDR and NJDHSS determined that an epidemiologic study was warranted, and that the study would include assessments of the potential for exposure to specific drinking-water sources.

To assist the epidemiologic efforts, ATSDR developed a work plan to reconstruct historical characteristics of the water-distribution system serving the Dover Township area by using water-distribution system modeling techniques. Using collected data, the water-distribution system model was calibrated to present-day (1998) conditions. ATSDR released a report and a technical paper in June 2000 describing the field-data collection activities and model calibration results. Below are links to the historical report, summary of findings and the complete report.

Historical Reconstruction of the Water-Distribution System Serving the Dover Township Area, New Jersey: January 1962–December 1996

Summary of Findings

Complete Report -- .pdf version.

Appendix A - Tables of water-distribution system pipeline characteristics, Dover Township area, New Jersey, 1962–96
Appendix B - Tables of water-distribution system groundwater-well production and operating data, Dover Township area, New Jersey,1962–96
Appendix C - Tables of water-distribution system operations used in EPANET 2, Dover Township area, New Jersey, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1978, 1988, 1995, and 1996
Appendix D - Tables of groundwater-well and high-service and booster pump operations, Dover Township area, New Jersey, minimum-, maximum-, and average-demand months, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1978, 1988, 1995, and 1996
Appendix E - Reconstruction of hydraulic management of a water-distribution system using genetic algo-rithms, by M.M. Aral, J. Guan, M.L. Maslia, and J.B. Sautner
Appendix F - Tables of wells and well fields (points of entry) and EPANET 2 source-node identifications used to conduct monthly source-trace analyses, Dover Township area, New Jersey, 1962–96
Appendix G - Tables of simulated proportionate contribution of water derived using the manual adjustment process, Dover Township area, New Jersey, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1978, 1988, 1995, and 1996
Appendix H - Graphs of simulated proportionate contribution of water derived using the manual adjustment process, Dover Township area, New Jersey, minimum-, maximum-, and average-demand months, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1978, 1988, 1995, and 1996
Appendix I - Tables of simulated proportionate contribution of water derived using genetic algorithm (GA) methods, sensitivity analyses SENS0, Dover Township area, New Jersey, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1978, 1988, 1995, and 1996
Appendix J - Graphs of simulated proportionate contribution of water derived using genetic algorithm (GA methods, sensitivity analyses SENS0, Dover Township area, New Jersey, minimum-, maximum-, and average-demand months, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1978, 1988, 1995, and 1996
Appendix K - Tables of absolute difference in simulated proportionate contribution of water between the manual adjustment process and genetic algorithm (GA) methods for sensitivity analyses SENS0, Dover Township area, New Jersey, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1978, 1988, 1995, and 1996
Supplemental Data, Glossary, and Abbreviations


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This page last updated on December 20, 2001

Contact Name: Joanne D. Cox/ JDCox@cdc.gov

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