[CPEO-BIF] Vapor issues at Del Amo and Montrose Superfund sites, Los Angeles area, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA orders more air quality tests for homes near Superfund sites

By Tony Barboza 
Los Angeles Times (CA)
August 10, 2015

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a new round of air quality tests for a South Bay neighborhood after detecting a variety of contaminants inside homes near two federal cleanup sites.

The EPA sampled 107 homes near the Del Amo and Montrose Superfund sites earlier this year under pressure from residents worried they are breathing dangerous chemicals seeping in their homes from a plume of tainted groundwater below.

The tests detected pollutants associated with the cleanup sites, including benzene, chloroform and trichloroethylene, at levels above the agency's health standards for long-term exposure.

The concentrations are not high enough to pose an urgent health risk to residents, said Dana Barton, who supervises the Superfund sites for the EPA's regional office in San Francisco. "But we did find some levels of concern."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-del-amo-superfund-20150810-story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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