[CPEO-BIF] California to test homes near Riverside "ag park"

[Lenny Siegel]

State will test 28 Riverside homes for contamination
Officials will look for dust that may have blown from a sewer plant site in the Arlanza area.

By ALICIA ROBINSON 
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
March 11, 2017 

More than two dozen properties that border a Riverside environmental cleanup site will be tested for contamination, state officials said this week.

The state Department of Toxic Substances Control, which is overseeing the cleanup on a former sewer plant site between Crest and Rutland avenues in the Arlanza neighborhood, released a draft plan for neighborhood testing Tuesday, March 7.

The plan proposes taking soil samples from the yards of 28 homes, most of which are on the south side of the 62-acre site, known as the "ag park" because it once hosted agricultural fairs and activities.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/articles/plant-827232-arlanza-sewer.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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