These properties have dangerous amounts of lead in their soils after decades of being coated by pollution from a nearby lead acid car battery smelter (Exide Technologies). The state has cleaned up about 4,000 properties within a 10,000-parcel area that w

Maywood, CA - November 10: Workers carefully rinse off the asphalt and then use a wet vac to vacuum up any soil as they remove contaminated soil on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Maywood, CA. Properties have dangerous amounts of lead in their soils after decades of being coated by pollution from a nearby lead-acid car battery smelter (Exide Technologies). The state has cleaned up about 4,000 properties within a 10,000-parcel area that was affected by this pollution. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Maywood, CA - November 10: Workers carefully rinse off the asphalt and then use a wet vac to vacuum up any soil as they remove contaminated soil on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Maywood, CA. Properties have dangerous amounts of lead in their soils after decades of being coated by pollution from a nearby lead-acid car battery smelter (Exide Technologies). The state has cleaned up about 4,000 properties within a 10,000-parcel area that was affected by this pollution. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
These properties have dangerous amounts of lead in their soils after decades of being coated by pollution from a nearby lead acid car battery smelter (Exide Technologies). The state has cleaned up about 4,000 properties within a 10,000-parcel area that w
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