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   This fact sheet summarizes the findings of ATSDR’s final report, released in April 2019. The final report incorporates responses to comments received on the draft report during a June through August 2018 public comment period. Several details of the evaluation changed, but ATSDR’s overall conclusions remain the same. The report is available can can be found at www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/coldwater_creek/.

Key Findings and Recommendations:

• Radiological contamination in and around Coldwater Creek, prior to remediation activities, could have increased the risk of some types of cancer in people who played or lived there. ? ATSDR recommends that potentially exposed residents or former residents share their potential exposure related to Coldwater Creek with their physicians as part of their medical history and consult their physicians promptly if new or unusual symptoms develop.

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