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ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT -In a busy five-acre industrial pocket of Lincoln Heights, north of Downtown Los Angeles, zigzagged with metro lines and freeways and car-choked roads, developers plan to build a 468-unit apartment complex called the Avenue 34 Project. But the project, which provides 66 units for “very low income” households, can’t escape the area’s polluted legacy. That’s because the site sits adjacent to Welch’s former industrial dry cleaners that operated for nearly 70 years. During that time, massive amounts of toxic chemicals and solvents, including possible carcinogens like trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE), leaked or were dumped into the soil and groundwater, requiring extensive cleanup. The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) recently ordered the developers to conduct tests on the proposed building site, which detected elevated levels of these same chemicals, among others. ....
Print Nancy Smith remembered that children had called it “the sick land” the wedge of property alongside the 110 Freeway where a dry cleaning facility had laundered aprons and uniforms for decades across from a Lincoln Heights elementary school. “We were all up in arms about it because of the children getting sick,” said Smith, who has lived in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood for more than half a century. Decades after the old Welch’s laundry was shuttered, California regulators worked to clean up the soil and check the groundwater for the chemicals used there volatile organic compounds such as tetrachloroethylene that could damage the human liver and nervous system and have been tied to an increased risk of cancer. The Department of Toxic Substances Control oversaw a cleanup effort that lasted for years and has continued to monitor groundwater at the site. ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading Developers want to build 4,000 homes on a toxic East Bay site. Activists want a full cleanup first FacebookTwitterEmail 1of8 Top: A proposed housing project at the Zeneca site includes 4,000 units, a grocery store and 30 acres of parks and open space.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of8 Richmond business owner Sherry Padgett visits the site of a proposed residential development project that she opposes.Paul Chinn / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of8 Barrels of soil cuttings from the 86-acre site.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 4of8 A former business’ entry gate to an 86-acre property that is polluted with more than 100 chemicals in Richmond.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less ....