'Newsmakers' examines environmental hazards at Jordan High School in Watts
As we've reported over the last month, hundreds of students and teachers who attend Jordan High School in Watts are exposed daily to levels of lead 75 times what's considered toxic.
On the latest edition of Newsmakers, we're talking to students and experts about what's happening, what's being done to fix it and how the Watts community as a whole is suffering.The Los Angeles Unified School District said testing it commissioned found lead concentrations on the campus 75 times higher than what the Environmental Protection Agency defines as a hazardous threshold. In 2020, it filed a lawsuit to recover funds it has spent on cleaning up the contamination.
Atlas also faces a lawsuit from the State Department of Toxic Substances Control. In 2020, the agency accused Atlas of violating the Health and Safety Code regarding illegal disposal, storage, and treatment of hazardous waste. The Coalition for Healthy Families has repeatedly called for officials to go beyond civil litigation.
"Criminal action, so that we can go ahead and shut down the site, but more importantly, so that we can clean up the site and ensure that our students have a safe place to go to school," said Ingrid Rivera-Guzman, the president of the Latino Coalition of Los Angeles and member of the coalition.
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