Air Toxics at School 2022
School Info
School James Russell Lowell
Street 175 Orchard Street
City Watertown
State MA
Number of students 355
Student % minority 48%
Type Regular School
Status 1
Level Elementary
Data Source CCD (public schools)
Air Toxics Info
Number of facilities affecting school 159
Number of chemicals affecting school 70
Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst) 49th
Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst) 63,296
Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst) 50th
Toxic rank statewide (1=worst) 1,247
Toxic Hazard 686.14
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.14 times the national average at schools.
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.70 times the state average at schools.
Top 5 facilities
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Top chemicals
Chemical Toxic Hazard
Cobalt 253.89
Chromium 157.83
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processing residue (COPR). COPR is the solid waste remaining after aqueous extraction of oxidized chromite ore that has been combined with soda ash and kiln roasted at approximately 2,000 F.) 133.20
Trichloroethylene 35.06
Ethylene oxide 33.05
Nickel compounds 15.42
Nickel 13.88
Chloroform 12.50
Lead 10.60
Diisocyanates 5.82
Benzene 4.93
Cadmium compounds 4.02
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate 1.05
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 0.79
Formaldehyde 0.78
Zinc compounds 0.77
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) 0.63
Antimony compounds 0.31
Naphthalene 0.28
Chlorine 0.22
Ethylbenzene 0.16
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.15
Triethylamine 0.14
Xylene (mixed isomers) 0.12
Copper 0.10
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid) 0.07
Lead compounds 0.06
Hydrogen cyanide 0.04
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.04
Certain glycol ethers 0.04
Nitric acid 0.03
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride) 0.03
N,N-Dimethylformamide 0.03
Acetonitrile 0.02
Toluene 0.01
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia is reportable under this listing) 0.01
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene 0.01
n-Hexane (Hexane) 0.01
Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate 0.01
Silver compounds 0.01
o-Xylene 0.01
Cyanide compounds 0.01
Pyridine 0.00
Ethylene glycol 0.00
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or bromine.) 0.00
Manganese 0.00
Aluminum (fume or dust) 0.00
Phenol 0.00
Methyl tert-butyl ether 0.00
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) 0.00
Methyl methacrylate 0.00
Methanol 0.00
Mercury 0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene 0.00
Silver 0.00
Cyclohexane 0.00
Propylene oxide 0.00
Styrene 0.00
Vinyl acetate 0.00
3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate 0.00
Sodium nitrite 0.00
Formic acid 0.00
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol) 0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone 0.00
Cumene 0.00
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) 0.00
Benzoyl peroxide 0.00
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone 0.00
Tetrabromobisphenol A 0.00
Nonylphenol Ethoxylates 0.00
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Top 5 chemicals from facilities
Facility Parent Company Chemical Toxic Hazard
TECOMET Charlesbank Capital Partners Cobalt 218.32
CERTAINTEED LLC Saint-Gobain Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processing residue (COPR). COPR is the solid waste remaining after aqueous extraction of oxidized chromite ore that has been combined with soda ash and kiln roasted at approximately 2,000 F.) 132.42
GE AVIATION General Electric Chromium 73.49
TECOMET Charlesbank Capital Partners Chromium 55.65
BOYD CORP INC. Goldman Sachs Trichloroethylene 35.06
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