[CPEO-BIF] Concern over Lowe's project, Alhambra, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents and experts express concern over environment and traffic studies conducted for the Lowe’s development

by Phoenix Tso 
Alhambra Source (CA)
January 11, 2017

A group of Alhambra residents has submitted letters to the city's Planning Division, questioning the traffic and environmental impact, as well as the zoning rules, for a planned Lowe's Home Improvement complex on South Fremont Ave.

The site of the proposed development is north of West Mission Road on South Freemont, which is already well known for its daily traffic gridlock.

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Residents have also criticized the lack of Environmental Impact Report for a project as big as the Lowe's development. According to the Lowe’s project’s initial study, from 1963 to 2009, International Extrusion Corporation owned the siteand used it for aluminum manufacturing, resulting in groundwater and soil contamination. The report detailed the efforts of N&N engineering to remove the contaminated soil at 20 feet below ground level. Critics said they are concerned that remaining chemicals known as chlorinated volatile organic compounds will get into the new buildings' air and put people’s health at risk, in a process known as vapor intrusion.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.alhambrasource.org/stories/residents-and-experts-express-concern-over-lowe

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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