2016 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:06:55 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Jordan Downs demolition to begin any day now despite concerns about lead in the soil" [Watts, Los Angeles, CA]
 
Jordan Downs demolition to begin any day now despite concerns about lead in the soil


by Elizabeth Aguilera 
KPCC Radio (Souther California)
August 17 2016


Demolition of part of the Jordan Downs public housing complex is set to begin any day now, according to the Los Angeles Housing Authority, but some residents and activists want the city to hold off until the state determines whether it needs to remove lead-tainted soil from the site.

The housing is set to be replaced by a mixed-use development and will include the property next door, a former steel mill now identified as a brownfield that is being cleaned up after the city found lead, arsenic, cadmium and polychlorinated biphenyls there.

For more than two years, residents and activists have raised questions about soil contamination in the housing complex, especially after limited testing early on showed high levels of lead. They worry that the pollution from next door drifted during the decades the mill was in operation.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/08/17/63712/jordan-downs-demolition-to-begin-any-day-now-despi/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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