State Reveals Project To Remove Lead From Soil Around Former Battery Recycling Plant
Among the areas slated for cleanup are 46 child-care centers, five private schools and two parks in a zone extending 1.7 miles from the Exide Technologies plant.
Los Angeles Times:
State Releases Plan To Clean Lead Contamination From 2,500 Parcels Near Closed Battery Recycler Exide
lead will be removed from the soil of 2,500 of the worst contaminated residential properties including dozens of child-care centers near a shuttered battery recycling plant under a plan released Thursday by state regulators. The Department of Toxic Substances Control plan sets in motion the next two years of a massive cleanup project spanning more than 10,000 properties across seven southeast Los Angeles communities around the Exide Technologies facility. (Barboza, 7/6)
KPCC:
State Unveils Long-Awaited Exide Cleanup Plan
The project will be "the largest cleanup of its kind ever in California," said Barbara Lee, director of the Department of Toxic Substances Control. The agency plans to hire a contractor by the end of August and expects the work to begin sometime after that, said Mohsen Nazemi, deputy director of Toxic Substance Control's Brownfields and Environmental Restoration Program. (Plevin, 7/6)
In other environmental health news —
KQED:
Advocates Concerned About Chemical Drifts That Sickened Central Coast Farmworkers
Advocates for farmworkers on both coasts and labor experts are expressing concern about the two dozen agricultural employees who were hospitalized last month in Salinas and Watsonville in a span of one week after fungicides and insecticides apparently drifted on to the fields where they were working... More than 1,000 people in California were sickened by pesticide exposure in 2014, the most recent year for which the Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) has such data. (Goldberg, 7/6)