ALERT! ALERT!
Quemetco, Inc. wants to bring MORE hazardous waste and truck traffic into our community--24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
WE SAY NO!
5000 more trucks each year --- NO!
54, 750 more tons of hazardous waste --- NO!
30 million more gallons of wastewater --- NO!
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Emissions coming out of Quemetco's stack
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Every day is Groundhog Day for Californians, as our regulators keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. A polluting industrial facility is allowed operate in a community even as it racks up violations, again. The polluting facility leaves a toxic mess in our neighborhoods, again. California’s regulators struggle to find the funds to clean up the mess, again. Taxpayers get stuck paying the clean-up costs, again. Because the polluter rarely, if ever, pays—again.
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In 2017, Quemetco had 111 workers with lead levels that could cause miscarriage or heart disease with prolonged exposure, including several high enough to trigger mandatory enforcement inspections elsewhere. In fact, the Department of Public Health has been recording elevated levels among Quemetco employees for decades, but has never called in Cal/OSHA for enforcement.
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November 22, 2015
Article by Daniel Ross, Truthout - Report
Lax Regulatory Enforcement Leaves Thousands at Risk of Lead Poisoning in California
Health History Survey of Avocado Heights and Hacienda Heights Sept-Nov 2015
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