[CPEO-BIF] California "DTSC Orders Battery Recycler Quemetco to Expand Soil Sampling, Clean Up Areas Near City of Industry Facility"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
California Department of Toxic Substances Control
December 17, 2018

DTSC Orders Battery Recycler Quemetco to Expand Soil Sampling, Clean Up Areas Near City of Industry Facility

SACRAMENTO – The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) today ordered Quemetco Inc. to conduct additional lead sampling in residential areas around its battery recycling facility in the City of Industry. DTSC has also ordered the facility to remove contaminated soil in the industrial areas immediately outside the facility where sampling found high levels of lead.

The new sampling order follows previous lead sampling conducted by Quemetco in 2016 and 2017. That sampling was limited to a quarter-mile radius around the Quemetco facility, and the company was able to obtain access to only a third of the residential and industrial/commercial properties in that area.

Additional sampling is needed to determine whether lead emissions from Quemetco’s past operations were deposited in the surrounding community. New DTSC modeling and analysis show that it is possible the facility’s historical operations may have deposited lead up to 1.6 miles away from the facility.

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For the entire release, see
https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/PressRoom/upload/DTSC-Orders-Battery-Recycler-Quemetco-to-Expand-Soil-Sampling-Clean-Up-Areas-Near-City-of-Industry-Facility.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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