[CPEO-BIF] South Gate, California TCE industrial sites

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News Release
U.S. EPA Region 9
September 15, 2011

U.S. EPA Proposes to Add LA County Industrial Facilities to List of  
Nationâs Worst Toxic Sites / Seam Master Industries and Jervis B.  
Webb Co. - both in South Gate


SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing  
to add two new sites to the Superfund National Priorities List in Los  
Angeles County, Calif. The Seam Master Industries site and the Jervis  
B. Webb Co. site are both located in South Gate, Calif. Volatile  
organic compounds, including elevated levels of trichloroethylene  
(TCE), commonly used as a solvent for cleaning metal parts, have been  
confirmed in the soils and groundwater at these sites.



Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the  
most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the  
country. Listing these sites on the NPL means that EPA can  
investigate and clean up the sites using federal funding.



"These industrial plants are located in I-710 corridor, an area that  
is a high priority for EPA," said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional  
Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "We are proposing to add the  
sites to the NPL so we can proceed with investigating and cleaning  
them, while holding the polluters financially responsible."


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/ 
0/9a33a2101fcfc1428525790c00652d83?OpenDocument

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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