Thank you to the 75 community members who came out this past Saturday morning to the San Angelo Park Community Center to have their soil tested by USC environmental scientist Jill Johnston and her student--165 separate samples were tested for lead, arsenic, and other chemicals of concern. When you get involved like this it sends a strong message that you care about the health of your community! We also want to thank Supervisor Hilda Solis and her Field Deputy Lawrence Shih for helping to reserve the beautiful--and cool!--community center space for this event.
Our next step will be to push DTSC to expand their test radius from 1/4 mile to at least 1 mile around Quemetco since almost a third of the samples from residences outside the 1/4 mile radius tested well over the state residential threshold of 80 ppm of lead. As an added concern, 18% of samples had arsenic levels well over the state residential threshold of .07ppm. We're also going to follow up with the LA County Department of Public Health to make sure they are providing the appropriate oversight of DTSC's residential soil sampling.
Together we can make a difference!
Our next step will be to push DTSC to expand their test radius from 1/4 mile to at least 1 mile around Quemetco since almost a third of the samples from residences outside the 1/4 mile radius tested well over the state residential threshold of 80 ppm of lead. As an added concern, 18% of samples had arsenic levels well over the state residential threshold of .07ppm. We're also going to follow up with the LA County Department of Public Health to make sure they are providing the appropriate oversight of DTSC's residential soil sampling.
Together we can make a difference!