SOUTH BAY : EPA to Test Back-Yard Soil in Area Near Torrance
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will sample soil from the back yards of 14 homes in an unincorporated area near Torrance to search for possible chemical contamination, agency officials said Tuesday.
The EPA wants to make sure that contaminants have not migrated from the nearby Del Amo industrial area, which had a rubber manufacturing plant from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. The area is now a proposed Superfund cleanup site.
Although state testing a decade ago did not turn up soil contamination, the new tests are being done as a precaution.
Soil will be collected Sept. 21 and 22 from back yards of homes on 204th street between Normandie and New Hampshire avenues, and from an undeveloped area along Del Amo Boulevard. Results are expected six weeks after the tests are completed.
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
