The city did the right thing closing Swann Park in South Baltimore, but residents and athletes who used the park should not worry about cancer, experts say.

“With chronic low-level exposures, there is potential for arsenic to cause some cancers,” said Dr. Suzanne Doyon, medical director of the Maryland Poison Center. “It would be, for any single individual, a very short time spent on that playground or field.”

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