Agency Shuts Down Residents’ Request For Expanded Lead Testing Near Exide Plant
At a town meeting, people who live close to the old battery plant called for the testing area to be expanded to a 4.5 mile radius. However Toxic Substances Control Director Barbara Lee said, "I don’t have funding to do that. I have funding to test up to 1.7 miles and that’s what we are going to do.”
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Exide Communities Seek Wider Lead Testing, State Says No
Residents from neighborhoods affected by lead contamination from the old Exide battery recycling plant asked state officials to greatly expand the soil testing area around the plant – to a radius of 4.5 miles – during a community meeting Thursday night in Commerce. But the head of the agency overseeing the cleanup said there is no money for such an expansion of the project. (Aguilera, 4/29)