Call to Action

HOW YOU CAN HELP

1. Join the Sierra Club.
   
   
2. Tell your friends.
    
3. Join our email list to stay current on the latest status and public hearings and presentations.
   
   
4. Attend the Public Meetings.
   
   
5. Make a donation by making your check payable to and mailing to:
   Sierra Club, Angeles Foundation
   3435 Wilshire Boulevard, #320,  Los Angeles, CA 90010-1904
   Write in the memo line: payable to the South Bay Open Space Task Force
   
   
6. Write, email, fax or phone your elected local, state, and national representatives today.  
   Sample letter (MS Word)
   
   Without your input, they will feel free to enact and vote on legislation to which you may be opposed.
   Tell them we want the following actions taken to ensure the landfill is cleaned up and the area can be used as a public park:

• Reduce polluted groundwater by installing additional water extraction wells.
  
  
• Reduced air pollution by requiring installation of known state-of-the-art eqiupment to dramatically reduce air emission.
  
  
• Utilize the $80 million of tax dollars that have been set aside for the Palos Verdes landfill restoration.
  County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County Exhibit F-12, June 30, 2006 Budget
  County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County $4.6 Billion Net Assets June 30, 2006 - Exhibit D-1

• Insist on Complete New Health Risk Assessment (HRA) due to Flawed Five Year Review Assessment

• Inappropriate Testing Model:
  The 2008 HRA did not use the current EPA-approved air modeling data system called AERMOD.
  Call to Action: Request new HRA based on current Federal EPA Air Modeling.
  
  
• Flawed Air Sampling :
  The meterorological data used was from a 1981 Redondo Beach air sampling, which is dated and from a geographic area some distance away, and with a different proximity to the ocean and other geographic variables.
  Call to Action: Request air sampling based on current and local meterological data.
  
  
• Incomplete Well Testing:
  Less than half of the wells were tested for contamination.
  Gas well temperatures are historically very high. High temperature indicate possible landfill fires. In 2004, temperatures were reported over 300°, well beyond the 140° defined by FEMA as a landfill fire.
  Call to Action: Request updated testing of ALL wells.

• Rigorous maintenance of the landfill gas extraction system to create a safe environment for community use.
  
  
• Restore a natural habitat and create a passive mutli-use recreational area.

Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
(202) 456-1111
president@whitehouse.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/

State Torrance Representatives:
http://dist28.casen.govoffice.com/

State Palos Verdes Representatives:
Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal
110 Pine Avenue
Suite 804
Long Beach CA 90802
(562) 495-2915
Fax: (562) 495-2983
Aid: Niki Tennant
 

To determine the name and full information on your representatives in the California Legislature, use the following link and enter your Zip Code: www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html

Susan Seamans  
Judy Mitchell - recently elected to the AQMD District Board
Frank Zerunyan
John Addleman
Steve Zuckerman