title: Exposure to tetrachloroethylene via contaminated drinking water pipes in Massachusetts: a predictive model.
abstract: A computer model was developed to estimate exposure to tetrachloroethylene leaching from drinking-water pipes in Massachusetts between 1968 and 1979. The model was to be used for an epidemiologic study of cancer in five communities in Massachusetts. This model assigned a relative cumulative exposure score to each individual participant in the study, based on the geometry, size, age, and water flow through the water pipe that supplied a particular household and on the individual's duration of residence in that household. The results of modeling showed a wide range of exposure levels among the study participants. The epidemiologic study is described in the accompanying paper by Aschengrau et al.
authors.affiliation: Center for Technology, Environment, and Development, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Webler
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013750:Tetrachloroethylene / Q000032:analysis*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis*; D014881:Water Supply
chemical_list: D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D013750:Tetrachloroethylene