[CPEO-BIF] Jordan Downs Redevelopment: Vapor Intrusion Should Not Be Ignored

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jordan Downs Redevelopment, South Central Los Angeles:
Vapor Intrusion Should Not Be Ignored
Lenny Siegel
October, 2013

The billion-dollar Jordan Downs Redevelopment Project, located in the  
heart of Watts in South Central Los Angeles, could end up as a model  
for neighborhood revitalization in low-to-medium density urban areas.  
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) plans to  
replace a 700-unit public housing project with a sustainable urban  
village containing as many as 1800 mixed-income housing units, major  
retail stores, and recreational facilities. HACLA and its private  
partners plan to build several hundred new rental units on an  
adjacent 21-acre former steel factory site. To make it safe for  
housing, they plan to remove at least 33,600 cubic yards of soil  
contaminated with lead, arsenic, and PCBs, but they consider vapor- 
intrusion a non-issue, despite the presence of unacceptable  
concentrations of trichloroethylene (TCE) in groundwater and soil gas  
in the northeastern section of the property.

For the full report, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/JordanDowns.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., 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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