Air Toxics at School 2022
School Info
School Watertown High
Street 50 Columbia Street
City Watertown
State MA
Number of students 733
Student % minority 45%
Type Regular School
Status 1
Level High School
Data Source CCD (public schools)
Air Toxics Info
Number of facilities affecting school 160
Number of chemicals affecting school 70
Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst) 49th
Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst) 62,723
Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst) 50th
Toxic rank statewide (1=worst) 1,227
Toxic Hazard 700.09
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.14 times the national average at schools.
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.72 times the state average at schools.
Top 5 facilities
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Top chemicals
Chemical Toxic Hazard
Cobalt 250.22
Chromium 166.93
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.) 140.30
Trichloroethylene 35.54
Ethylene oxide 32.17
Nickel compounds 15.64
Nickel 15.34
Chloroform 13.14
Lead 10.04
Diisocyanates 5.69
Benzene 4.75
Cadmium compounds 4.41
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate 0.97
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 0.85
Formaldehyde 0.80
Zinc compounds 0.73
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) 0.66
Antimony compounds 0.31
Naphthalene 0.27
Chlorine 0.22
Ethylbenzene 0.15
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.14
Xylene (mixed isomers) 0.12
Copper 0.12
Triethylamine 0.12
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid) 0.07
Lead compounds 0.06
Hydrogen cyanide 0.04
Certain glycol ethers 0.04
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.04
Nitric acid 0.04
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride) 0.03
N,N-Dimethylformamide 0.03
Acetonitrile 0.02
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
Toluene 0.01
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene 0.01
n-Hexane (Hexane) 0.01
Silver compounds 0.01
Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate 0.01
o-Xylene 0.01
Cyanide compounds 0.01
Pyridine 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
Ethylene glycol 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
Silver 0.00
Cyclohexane 0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene 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 212.01
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.) 139.52
GE AVIATION General Electric Chromium 79.73
TECOMET Charlesbank Capital Partners Chromium 54.04
BOYD CORP INC. Goldman Sachs Trichloroethylene 35.54
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