[CPEO-BIF] "Hundreds of Hacienda Heights homes near Industry battery plant to be tested for lead, arsenic, " City of Industry, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hundreds of Hacienda Heights homes near Industry battery plant to be tested for lead, arsenic
Tests for toxic soil set near battery plant Homes, commercial sites affected in Quemetco project

By Steve Scauzillo
San Gabriel Valley Tribune (CA)
April 28, 2016


INDUSTRY - The Department of Toxic Substances Control will begin testing soil from 300 homes and 27 commercial properties in areas of Hacienda Heights surrounding Quemetco Inc., a lead-acid battery recycling facility in City of Industry, state environmental officials announced Thursday.

Officials will look for high levels of lead and arsenic, which may have spewed from the facility’s smokestacks and escaped as airborne dust from trucks and storage areas, said DTSC project manager Jose Diaz during an Industry City Council meeting.

Low levels of lead can damage a child’s nervous system, causing learning disabilities and behavioral problems. Lead has also caused tumors in laboratory animals and is listed as a probable carcinogen, according to DTSC.

Diaz said extensive health risk assessment studies may be ordered if early soil tests find more than federal action levels of 80 parts per million for lead and 12 parts per million for arsenic, a carcinogen linked to skin, bladder, liver and lung cancers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sgvtribune.com/environment-and-nature/20160428/hundreds-of-hacienda-heights-homes-near-industry-battery-plant-to-be-tested-for-lead-arsenic

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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