Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Discussion
SUBJECT:
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CONSIDER STATUS REPORT ON THE REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND CARSON DECLARATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY WITHIN THE CAROUSEL TRACT (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
This item is on the agenda to provide updates related to the environmental investigation of the Carousel Tract. The report provides updates on the cluster reconfiguration, water main replacement, sewer pipe testing, and the taxability of relocation and per diem payments (Exhibit No. 1).
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
CONSIDER and DISCUSS.
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III. ALTERNATIVES
TAKE such other action the City Council deems appropriate that is consistent with the requirements of law.
IV. BACKGROUND
History
The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles (Regional Board) is the lead agency overseeing the environmental investigation and cleanup of the Carousel Tract. The Regional Board issued a Cleanup and Abatement Order No. R4-2011-0046 (CAO) on March 11, 2011 requiring Shell Oil Products US to investigate and clean up discharges of waste in soil and groundwater at the Carousel Tract site (Exhibit No. 2).
Project related documents are available for public review at: http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/losangeles/Kast/index.shtml
The remedial activities at the Carousel Neighborhood will be conducted in phases, with each phase originally involving a group of up to ten (10) properties. Each group of properties is referred to as a cluster. The site has been subdivided into twenty-eight (28) clusters that were originally scheduled to be remediated over a five (5) year period (Exhibit No. 3).
Once work commenced in May, 2009, it was determined that working in the tight space and with the protocols in place to ensure health and safety, that the original schedule of 5 years would likely take more than 11 years to complete. Shell and AECOM, its lead contractor, proc...
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