Mr. Rothbart stated:
" I can assure you that no contaminated stormwater or wastewater was
diverted from the Palos Verdes Landfill to the Disposal Gardens. The
Sanitation Districts have conducted an extensive remedial investigation
around the Palos Verdes Landfill and found no landfill impacts on the
Disposal Gardens area."
A quick check of the citation given by Mr Rothbart:
http://www.lacsd.org/swaste/PostClosure/PalosVerdes.htm
brought me to Fact sheet # 7 Site Investigation Completion, which states
on page 2
"Two different areas of ground water contamination, or plumes, were
found at the Palos Verdes Landfill. The contamination affects ground
water that lies approximately 20 to 70 feet below the ground surface.
One plume occurs near Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance and the other
occurs to the northeast of
the South Coast Botanic Garden at Crenshaw Boulevard and Rolling Hills
Road. Both plumes extend off site, as shown on the map on the next
page."
This would seem to confirm Mr. Siegel's statement that
"California's Department of Toxic Substances Control has documented that
the Palos Verdes Landfill is leaking offsite into the surrounding
community."
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Doug Biggs
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Housing Development above TCE in Sellersville,
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Developer seeks final approval for 34 homes on Sellersville plot
By Emily Morris
News-Herald (PA)
May 24, 2006
Park Ten Inc of Lansdale, owners of a 10+-acre property at the
intersection of Franklin Way and Twelfth and North Main streets in
Sellersville, is coming much closer to realization of a plan for 34
homes on the property.
The group went before the Sellersville Planning Commission in May
seeking recommendation for final approval, but did not have the
documents needed for the recommendation, according to planning
commission Chairman Rachel Swierzewski.
The documents included an Act 2 clearance letter from the state
Department of Environmental Protection for the cleanup of
trichloroethylene (TCE) found on the property, which was a
radium-processing facility from 1914 to 1917 and also served as a
landfill in the mid-1900s. TCE is usually linked to previous industrial
activity and long-term exposure to vapors from the substance can be a
potential threat to human health. DEP began cleanup of the site in 1996
that included the removal of lead-contaminated soils and lower and
higher-activity radioactive soils at a cost of nearly $6.2 million,
according to DEP's Web site.
...
For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16684997&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept
_id=187826&rfi=6