Sunday, October 1
Pacoima, City of Industry, City of Maywood, California

Organizers/Sponsors:
PSR-LA
psrla.org
Pacoima Beautiful
California Environmental Rights Alliance
Hacienda Heights Improvement Association
ComitÉ Pro Uno

Martha Dina Arguello

213-689-9170

Events

Tour

• Quemetco, 720 South 7th Avenue, City of Industry, California
  Community members Duncan Magee, Tom Logf
  
• Rail yards
• Chemical production
• 710 Freeway and community efforts to develop alternatives
• City of Maywood
  • TCE contamination
  • Water quality and water equity issues
  • EJ issues and local politics

Main Issues

• The Quemetco facility demonstrates the current failure to regulate adequately stationary source pollution and the localized impacts from these sources. While the District considers itself in compliance with lead in air emissions, this facility reported to emitting 306 lbs in 2002–2003. Cumulative impacts and the need to focus on localized impacts at local impacts. For example, lead in the south coast air basin is in attainment, yet the local impacts of this and other lead emissions is of deep concern. Stationary versus mobile sources of pollution — who is minding the store?
• Failure of risk assessment and the failure of to actually make policy choices that are protective of communities using the information generated from risk assessment.  
• Health impacts of goods movement
• Rail yards
• Chemical production

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