Fallon Nevada

Media Announcement ATSDR Finds No Public Health Hazard from Exposure to Naval Air Station Fallon Substances in Churchill County, Nev. ... [Read More]

Probability Estimates for the Unique Childhood Leukemia Cluster in Fallon, Nevada, and Risks Near Other U.S. Military Aviation Facilities
Population mixing has been hypothesized as a possible cause of the Churchill County cluster. In several studies, increased rates of childhood leukemia were found in areas experiencing large-scale population influxes. These areas include rural new towns, towns with large increases in commuting, areas with large numbers of military personnel or wartime evacuees, and areas with large numbers of migrant construction workers (Alexander et al. 1997; Kinlen 1995; Kinlen and Petridou 1995; Li et al. 1998; Stiller and Boyle 1996). For example, in a study of 14 British rural towns newly developed in the period 1946-1950, Kinlen et al. (1990) reported relative risks of childhood leukemia of 2.75 ( p [Read More]

USDA Rural Development in Nevada--Fallon Local Office
Fallon Local Office       T he USDA Rural Development FallonLocal Officeserves the communities and Indian Tribes in the counties of ...

Fallon, Nevada 89406 ...

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ATSDR - PHA - Naval Air Station Fallon (a/k/a Fallon Naval Air Station), Fallon, Churchhill County, Nevada
Past, Current and Future Exposure: A toxicological evaluation and the screening model for dispersion of emissions indicate that exposure to emissions from airplanes (commercial and military) in the Fallon, NV area is not a likely contributing factor to the leukemia cases reported in the community. The potential exposure by members of the Fallon community to jet fuel and emission byproducts is not expected to be sufficient to result in non-cancer public health effects. Screening model analyses of emissions from NASF aircraft found that estimated ambient air concentrations for all pollutants considered were either below health-based comparison values or reasonably consistent with levels routinely measured in small communities and suburban locations across the United States. Therefore, engine emission byproducts at NASF pose no past, current, or future public health hazard. ... [Read More]

Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, Oversight of Naval Air Station Fallon
Public land withdrawals are parcels of federally administered land which have been withdrawn from public use and reserved for military activities. Over 127,000 acres of public land has been withdrawn to support military training at NAS Fallon. The withdrawan land encompass the ranges which comprise the Fallon Range Training Complex (FRTC). NAS Fallon and the FRTC are located in the Carson Desert and surrounding valleys of Churchill County in west-central Nevada. The base is about 70 miles east of Reno and 6 miles southeast of the City of Fallon. NAS Fallon controls 5 air-to-ground training ranges: ... [Read More]

ATSDR - PHA - Naval Air Station Fallon (a/k/a Fallon Naval Air Station), Fallon, Churchhill County, Nevada
ATSDR has identified the primary sources of drinking water for NASF, the city of Fallon, andthe Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. Groundwater beneath NASF is not used as a source ofdrinking water. The NASF drinking water wells and the city of Fallon municipal wells arescreened in the Fallon basalt aquifer which has not been impacted by site-related contaminants.These drinking water wells are upgradient from NASF and the depth to the basalt aquifer is morethan 500 feet below ground surface. Arsenic, which is naturally occurring in the Fallon area,continues to be detected above EPA's safe drinking water standard. The city of Fallon, NASF,and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe are addressing this issue by constructing a water treatmentplant designed to remove arsenic. The plant is expected to be in operation by the beginning of2004. There are some private drinking water wells to the east of the station boundary. However,monitoring wells near the station boundary have not contained any site-rela ... [Read More]

ATSDR - PHA - Naval Air Station Fallon (a/k/a Fallon Naval Air Station), Fallon, Churchhill County, Nevada
Most of the potable drinking water for the Fallon area comes either from the shallow orintermediate alluvial aquifer or the Fallon basalt aquifer. The Fallon basalt aquifer is the solesource of drinking water for NASF and also provides potable water to the city of Fallon and theFallon Paiute-Shoshone reservation, which is approximately 10 miles northeast of NASF. Mostprivate residences within Churchill County, but outside the Fallon service area, rely on shallowand intermediate alluvial aquifer wells for drinking water. Most wells in the intermediate aquiferare completed at depths of 90 to 120 feet bgs. Water obtained from the shallow aquifer in muchof the Lahontan Valley is often not potable due to high levels of naturally occurring dissolvedsolids and metals (NASF 1994). Surface water is not used as a source of drinking water at NASFor for off-site residential areas (USGS 2001). ... [Read More]

Nevada Historical Marker 161
Carson River Basin, Churchill County, Fallon, Nevada. Located at the Courthouse in Fallon, Nevada. ...

When Churchill County, created by the Territorial Legislature in 1861 but attached to Lyon County for judicial and revenue purposes, was made a distinct county in 1864, La Plata was selected as the county seat. In 1868, it was moved to Stillwater, where it remained until Fallon was founded in 1902. ... [Read More]

ATSDR - PHA - Naval Air Station Fallon (a/k/a Fallon Naval Air Station), Fallon, Churchhill County, Nevada
Figure 3. Fallon Area Wind Rose ...

APPENDIX C: EVALUATION OF AIRCRAFT EMISSIONS FROM NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON ...

(a/k/a FALLON NAVAL AIR STATION) ... [Read More]