2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 26 May 2006 00:27:03 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] RE: Visit to Disposal Gardens, Torrance, California (Lenny Siegel)
 
{Submitted by David Rothbart <DRothbart@lacsd.org>]

Lenny,

Mr. Biggs is correct that there are two groundwater plumes associated with the Palos Verdes Landfill. These plumes do not extend under the "Disposal Gardens" area and the Palos Verdes Landfill has not impacted the "Disposal Gardens" area. The groundwater plumes from the Palos Verdes Landfill are beneath Hawthorne and Crenshaw Blvds. In addition, these plumes are being remediated and the groundwater in the area has never been used for drinking water purposes. The subsurface barrier and groundwater extraction wells at the Palos Verdes Landfill, installed in 1986, ensure containment of waste constituents. Please let me know if anyone else had any questions.

Thanks again,

David

David L. Rothbart, P.E.
Supervising Engineer
Technical Services Department
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
1955 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, CA 90607
Telephone: (562) 699-7411, ext. 2412
FAX: (562) 692-2941


Douglas Biggs wrote:
Mr. Rothbart stated:

" I can assure you that no contaminated stormwater or wastewater was
diverted from the Palos Verdes Landfill to the Disposal Gardens. The
Sanitation Districts have conducted an extensive remedial investigation
around the Palos Verdes Landfill and found no landfill impacts on the
Disposal Gardens area."

A quick check of the citation given by Mr Rothbart:
http://www.lacsd.org/swaste/PostClosure/PalosVerdes.htm

brought me to Fact sheet # 7 Site Investigation Completion, which states
on page 2 "Two different areas of ground water contamination, or plumes, were
found at the Palos Verdes Landfill. The contamination affects ground
water that lies approximately 20 to 70 feet below the ground surface.
One plume occurs near Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance and the other
occurs to the northeast of
the South Coast Botanic Garden at Crenshaw Boulevard and Rolling Hills
Road. Both plumes extend off site, as shown on the map on the next
page."


This would seem to confirm Mr. Siegel's statement that "California's Department of Toxic Substances Control has documented that
the Palos Verdes Landfill is leaking offsite into the surrounding
community."


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Doug Biggs

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Today's Topics:


   1. Housing Development above TCE in Sellersville,	Pennsylvania
      (Lenny Siegel)
   2. Re: Visit to Disposal Gardens, Torrance, California (Lenny Siegel)


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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:48:05 -0700
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Housing Development above TCE in Sellersville,
	Pennsylvania
To: Brownfields Internet Forum <brownfields@list.cpeo.org>
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Developer seeks final approval for 34 homes on Sellersville plot

By Emily Morris
News-Herald (PA)
May 24, 2006

Park Ten Inc of Lansdale, owners of a 10+-acre property at the intersection of Franklin Way and Twelfth and North Main streets in Sellersville, is coming much closer to realization of a plan for 34 homes on the property.

The group went before the Sellersville Planning Commission in May seeking recommendation for final approval, but did not have the documents needed for the recommendation, according to planning commission Chairman Rachel Swierzewski.

The documents included an Act 2 clearance letter from the state Department of Environmental Protection for the cleanup of trichloroethylene (TCE) found on the property, which was a radium-processing facility from 1914 to 1917 and also served as a landfill in the mid-1900s. TCE is usually linked to previous industrial activity and long-term exposure to vapors from the substance can be a potential threat to human health. DEP began cleanup of the site in 1996 that included the removal of lead-contaminated soils and lower and higher-activity radioactive soils at a cost of nearly $6.2 million, according to DEP's Web site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16684997&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept
_id=187826&rfi=6



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Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org


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