[CPEO-BIF] Los Angeles "to test for possible toxic waste near Lincoln Heights housing development"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

City of L.A. to test for possible toxic waste near Lincoln Heights housing development

BY JONAH VALDEZ
Los Angeles Times
MAY 6, 2022 

In response to community outcry, the Los Angeles City Council has ordered that additional testing for potential toxic waste be performed outside the boundary of an embattled housing and retail development in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood. 

In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the City Council directed the Bureau of Sanitation to test the soil, storm water and wastewater surrounding the the development site on Avenue 34. Testing has already been conducted within the project site, but residents have called for additional testing on property near their homes.

Councilmember Gil Cedillo who represents the area, proposed the action after community activists and media reports called to light a long-forgotten criminal case in which more than 250 barrels of toxic chemicals were illegally buried in the area where developers now plan to build a five-story apartment complex, retail space and an underground parking garage.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-05-06/city-council-orders-testing-near-lincoln-heights-development

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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