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U.S. EPA WILL HOLD MEETING ON DEL AMO/MONTROSE SITE ACTIVITIES

Release Date: 1/22/1996
Contact Information: Paula Bruin, U.S. EPA, (415) 744-1587

  (San Francisco)--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) today announced it will hold an open house and public meeting to discuss upcoming activities at the Del Amo and Montrose Superfund sites near Torrance, Calif.

     U.S. EPA will hold the open house from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and
the public meeting from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., on Thursday, January 25, 1996, at the Van Deen School Auditorium, 826 Javelin St., Torrance, Calif..

      Representatives of the Agency will be on hand to discuss the process and schedule required to reach a cleanup decision for the Del Amo waste pits.  U.S. EPA officials also will update the community on the status of U.S. EPA's DDT removal project on 204th Street, which is related to the Montrose Superfund site.

     The proposed Del Amo Superfund site was a rubber manufacturing facility from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s, and wastes from the facility were disposed of in pits, which are contaminated with volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds.  DDT was manufactured at the 13-acre Montrose facility from 1947 to 1982.

     U.S. EPA proposed the Del Amo site be added to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) in July 1991.  Montrose was added to the NPL in October, 1989.  The NPL is the U.S. EPA list of hazardous waste sites potentially posing the greatest long-term threat to public health and the environment.

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