Transcript excerpts from the DTSC Hearing with guest Hamid Saebfar, DTSC Division Chief (School Property Evaluation/Clean Up)
Partial Transcript DTSC Hearing 1-19-05
MR. HAMID SAEBFAR: Thank you Eloy. Good evening. I just want to give you a brief history about this site. In 1998, LAUSD brought this project to us because during their construction activity of the school, they found contamination on the property, and LAUSD wanted to make sure the contamination had been properly addressed before they continued the construction of the school. Again, I want to emphasize that LAUSD actually took the steps to come to DTSC at that time to get our input on the environmental investigation and to find out if there was any necessary mitigation for this site. We started working with them and their consultant. An investigation was initiated. We found some contamination. However, that investigation was not completed and the project was put on hold for a number of years, and finally, till recently, LAUSD and their consultants completed the investigation and identified various mitigation systems to deal with the contamination at the site. And so as Eloy mentioned tonight, we want to summarize the investigation and discuss with you the proposed remedy that we believe that’s going to mitigate the problems at the L.A. Central High School No. 11. Thank you.
MR. HAMID SAEBFAR: A couple of things. First of all, LAUSD has conducted an environmental impact report on the concerns that you raised about the traffic and the automobiles, but I also should tell you that this site, as it existed, as we mentioned earlier, the levels of gasses that we’re finding are in the subsurface. We really don’t anticipate the construction of the school is going to add any additional gasses that are naturally venting into the surface, so it’s not enhancing any gas migration to the surface. As far as the traffic and automobile exhaust, those are issues that we don’t consider when we evaluate the school itself. It’s done as part of the California Environmental Quality Act, they look at all the issues and evaluate that.
MS. MESKIN: Has that been done?
MR. SAEBFAR: That has been done. (Inaudible question.) That information I’m sure is available from the repository.
MS. MESKIN: Why isn’t it available to us?
MR. SAEBFAR: It is available. That’s how we make it available to the public.
GENE KRISCHER: Is it correct or incorrect that whatever sampling was done for air quality, not on the site as she’s talking about, but the traffic, was not done at the site but actually somewhere else downtown? Not actually at the site.
MR. HAMID SAEBFAR: Thank you Eloy. Good evening. I just want to give you a brief history about this site. In 1998, LAUSD brought this project to us because during their construction activity of the school, they found contamination on the property, and LAUSD wanted to make sure the contamination had been properly addressed before they continued the construction of the school. Again, I want to emphasize that LAUSD actually took the steps to come to DTSC at that time to get our input on the environmental investigation and to find out if there was any necessary mitigation for this site. We started working with them and their consultant. An investigation was initiated. We found some contamination. However, that investigation was not completed and the project was put on hold for a number of years, and finally, till recently, LAUSD and their consultants completed the investigation and identified various mitigation systems to deal with the contamination at the site. And so as Eloy mentioned tonight, we want to summarize the investigation and discuss with you the proposed remedy that we believe that’s going to mitigate the problems at the L.A. Central High School No. 11. Thank you.
MR. HAMID SAEBFAR: A couple of things. First of all, LAUSD has conducted an environmental impact report on the concerns that you raised about the traffic and the automobiles, but I also should tell you that this site, as it existed, as we mentioned earlier, the levels of gasses that we’re finding are in the subsurface. We really don’t anticipate the construction of the school is going to add any additional gasses that are naturally venting into the surface, so it’s not enhancing any gas migration to the surface. As far as the traffic and automobile exhaust, those are issues that we don’t consider when we evaluate the school itself. It’s done as part of the California Environmental Quality Act, they look at all the issues and evaluate that.
MS. MESKIN: Has that been done?
MR. SAEBFAR: That has been done. (Inaudible question.) That information I’m sure is available from the repository.
MS. MESKIN: Why isn’t it available to us?
MR. SAEBFAR: It is available. That’s how we make it available to the public.
GENE KRISCHER: Is it correct or incorrect that whatever sampling was done for air quality, not on the site as she’s talking about, but the traffic, was not done at the site but actually somewhere else downtown? Not actually at the site.
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