Appendix C Air Quality and Health Risk Table C-29 SANTA CLARA - San Jose - 4th Street - Annual Average Concentrations and Health Risks TAC Conc.*/ Risk** 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Acetaldehyde Annual Avg 1.53 1.55 1.41 1.58 1.27 0.35 1.04 0.97 0.77 0.93 0.79 0.76 Health Risk 7 8 7 8 6 2 5 5 4 4 4 4 Benzene Annual Avg 3.02 2.44 2.03 1.89 1.88 1.55 0.97 0.93 1.04 0.73 0.7 Health Risk 280 226 188 175 174 144 89 86 97 68 65 "1,3-Butadiene" Annual Avg 0.549 0.385 0.436 0.485 0.385 0.348 0.311 0.287 0.293 0.227 0.193 Health Risk 207 145 164 182 145 131 117 108 110 85 72 Carbon Tetrachloride Annual Avg 0.127 0.128 0.107 0.102 0.077 0.095 Health Risk 33 34 28 27 20 25 Chromium (Hexavalent) Annual Avg 0.29 0.25 0.25 0.33 0.17 0.13 0.11 0.1 0.13 Health Risk 43 37 38 49 25 20 17 15 19 para-Dichlorobenzene Annual Avg 0.12 0.12 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.12 0.12 Health Risk 8 8 7 8 10 8 8 Formaldehyde Annual Avg 2.27 2 2.09 1.83 2.16 2.28 2.7 2.56 2.24 2.69 2.24 2.27 Health Risk 17 15 15 13 16 17 20 19 16 20 16 17 Methylene Chloride Annual Avg 0.83 6.65 0.66 0.58 0.8 0.69 0.55 0.75 0.5 Health Risk 3 23 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 Perchloroethylene Annual Avg 0.161 0.153 0.1 0.094 0.064 0.069 0.068 0.096 0.088 Health Risk 6 6 4 4 3 3 3 4 4 Diesel PM Annual Avg No Monitoring Data Available Health Risk Total Health Risk 553 457 431 457 392 383 291 253 244 192 215 21 * Concentrations for Chromium (Hexavalent) are expressed as ng/m3 and concentrations for Diesel PM are expressed as ug/m3. Concentrations for all other TACs are expressed as parts per billion. ** Health Risk represents the number of excess cancer cases per million people based on a lifetime (70-year) exposure to the annual average concentration. Total Health Risk represents only those compounds listed in this table and only those with data for that year. There may be other significant compounds for which monitoring and/or health risk information are not available.