2023-02-21 CC Agenda - Public Communication related to Hyperion2'023 0 21 CC AG)A
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Harada. Patricia
From•. Weaver, Tracy (City Clerk)
Sent:Monday, February 13, 2023 9:43 AM
To: Harada, Patricia; Sandoval, Lili
Subject: Fwd: H2S exceedance (02-09-2023)
Please post the email thread below.
Tracy Weaver
City Clerk
Begin forwarded message:
From: Michal Haynes <mhaynes@agmd.gov>
Date: February 10, 2023 at 10:49:28 AM PST
To: Sarah Meyer <sarahmeyer426@gmail.com>
Cc: "Corrie (Chitlik) Zupo" <corriezupo@gmail.com>, Kyle Wheeler <kyleburtonwheeler@gmail.com>,
Tyler Evains <tevains@scng.com>, Lisa Jacobs <Ijacobs@scng.com>, Arbor Quist <arborqui@usc.edu>,
Clerk of Board <Front_PC@agmd.gov>, "Boyles,Drew (Mayor)" <dboyles@elsegundo.org>, "George,
Darrell" <dgeorge@elsegundo.org>, "Sassoon, Elias" <esassoon@elsegundo.org>, Michelle Keldorf
<michellekeldorf@gmail.com>, Tracey <tmillerzarneke@elsegundoccb.org>, Ryan Baldino
<baldinoforelsegundo@gmail.com>, "Nicol, Scot (Council Member)" <snicol@elsegundo.org>, "Giroux,
Lance (Council Member)" <Igiroux@elsegundo.org>, "Pirsztuk, Carol (Council Member)"
<cpirsztuk@elsegundo.org>, "Pimentel, Chris (Mayor Pro Tem) <cpimentel@elsegundo.org>, John
Pickhaver <johnpickhaverjr@gmail.com>, Citizens El Segundo <elsegundo.cleanair@gmail.com>, Avery
Smith <asmith@elsegundoccb.org>, Mike Lewis <fml@wst2nrg.com>, Julie Stolnack
<esnoitall@yahoo.com>, vzupo78@yahoo.com, Rad <Rad.Nowroozi@sen.ca.gov>, Jessalyn
<JWaldron@bos.lacounty.gov>, ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS<ALLELECTEDOFFICIALS@elsegundo.org>,
Senator.Allen@senate.ca.gov, "Bates, Portland" <pbates@elsegundo.org>, karen.bass@lacity.org,
Barbara Ferrer <BFerrer@ph.lacounty.gov>
Subject: Re: H2S exceedance (02-09-2023)
If you filed a Complaint with HTP and you didn't get a call back or visit by HTP. Pls do the following:
Send me a Email showing date/ Time you filed this complaint.
Thanks
Insp Haynes
On Feb 10, 2023, at 8:46 AM, Sarah Meyer <sarahme er426 mai . om> wrote:
Thank you for this information Corrie. I filed complaints with Hyperion yesterday and
with AQM D but Hyperion of course called me back (like the do everyday) saying they are
in compliance and they don't detect any odors. They tell me that maybe it's trash I'm
smelling or the construction nearby. My toddler and I are both had headaches and I had
to keep all my windows closed and air filters blasting. This is unacceptable. Thank you
also for your public comment at the city council meeting. We never asked for chemicals
to be sprayed when the levels of H2S are high we DEMAND the root problems addressed and fixed.
Sarah Miszkowicz
On Feb 10, 2023, at 8:00 AM, Corrie (Chitlik) Zupo <corriezu o mail.com> wrote:
I agree. I had a headache and got the worst sleep last night. We are all concerned and this is long term
exposure with unknown consequences.
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On Feb 10, 2023, at 7:44 AM, Kyle Wheeler <k leburtonwheeler mail.com> wrote:
This explains why BOTH my 4 year olds woke up on separate occasions last night, both complaining of
headaches.
This is terrifying. Are my children being poisoned by H2S from the hyperion plant?
If anyone from the media cced here would like to speak with residents (and our children) we have a
group of about 1,000+ that are eager to share their individual stories of how hyperion has negatively
affected their lives for the past 2+ years since the spill.
On Feb 9, 2023, at 9:56 PM, Corrie (Chitlik) Zupo <corriezu o Mg .com> wrote:
Hello,
Hyperion's H2S is over 60 ppb. This is unacceptable.
-Corrie
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On Jan 25, 2023, at 9:05 PM, Corrie Chitlik <corriezu o mafl com> wrote:
Hello,
We had another sewage spill and I am VERY CONCERNED. I wasn't able to listen to todays AQMD
hearing, but I hope there's urgency to get LASAN District to repair and maintain their equipment. We are
on year 3 of continuous LASAN District negligence.
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-Corrie Zupo
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On Jan 11, 2023, at 11:12 PM, Corrie Zupo <corrieu o mail,com> wrote:
Hello,
I would like to re -submit this entire email thread as a public comment and include my updated
attachment. My updated attachment needs to be provided to the Hearing Board ahead of time
since it includes screenshots of scrubbed H2S exceedances (note that H2S limits were last
u - dated in 1969, and USC is actively studying the City of Carson and El Segundo, so regulators
have updated scientific data to hopefully update health and safety limits), potential pollutants of
concern for fenceline monitoring, TO-15 testing recommendations during equipment
breakdowns, emails on equipment mismanagement from violation P73348 (issued on
12/26/2022), and historical context on compliance monitoring mis-management. I do not plan to
call into the Hearing since it's during working hours. I also request that the Board please be
given all the City of El Segundo's comment letters (dating back to early 2022). These letters
nicely summarized the needs of our community with common-sense solutions.
Thank you and best regards,
Corrie Zupo
On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 3:23 PM Corrie Zupo <corrie Lu o mail.coM> wrote:
Hello,
I would like to add to my October 28th, 2022, public comment submittal for the upcoming
December 15th, 2022, Hearing Board. I wanted to clarify that the CARB H2S limit is 30 ppb, but
I do not agree with this archaic limit. It was established in 1969 and has not been updated since..
The World Health Organization (WHO) uses a lower limit of 20 ppb. Our community generally
starts smelling H2S around ten ppb. USC is agbygly stud in the health impacts of long-term
H2S exposure since there's limited research on residential exposure greater than a year. I want
to be clear that 30 ppb is too high, and we start experiencing acute symptoms around 10 ppb.
I also wanted to note that my understanding is Hyperion did a 24-hour TO-15 VOC sampling on
September 27th. I can not find their lab report in the FIND hearing board weekly status reports
(Facility ID 800214). The public should have access to this report to ensure that the flow was
indeed for 24 hours and that the reporting limits were below the air toxic thresholds. If the
reporting limits are above the air toxic thresholds, the lab will report non -detect when in fact,
there could be an air toxin present. The source testing protocol should also be made public.
Under SCAOMD Rule 1402, the District can ask a facility to prepare an Air Toxics Inventory
Report, Health Risk Assessment, or a Risk Reduction Plan. I think it's unclear to the public the
extent of chemicals being dumped on us every time the facility has an operational upset (which
is frequent). There's a focus on 112S. but other chemicals are transported and rnhued between
the liquid and gas phases Oftransport. with factors such
aawater surface area, temperature, turbulence, concentrations, and retention time. Is there a
dig tounderstand our health impacts from this mismanaged old facility?
Best regards,
From: [mrheZupo
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Cc: 8oylesDrew(K4ayor) Darrell George
Sassoon,E|ias Miche|leKe|dorf
Miller-Zarneke,Tracey Ryan
8a|dino Nicol, Scot (Council Member)
Lance Giroux Carol Pirsztuk(Mayor pro tem)
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Segundo Sarah Meyer Kyle Wheeler
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Subject: Public Comment, Case No. 1212-39 (Hyperion Status Update for Modification of an Order of
Abatement)
Hello,
I am a concerned mom and resident of El Segundo. I have provided numerous public comments on
Hyperion, and I have attended all the previous Hearing Boards (I lost track of how many have occurred
since 7/11/2021). 1 have also previously waited 4+ hours to make my comments, but at this time, I can't
keep missing time away from work and my family to call in. Please include this email and attachments
as a record of my public comment. I would also appreciate it if the Hearing Board received a copy of my
email and attachments ahead of time. From my experience, the Hearing Board is not
provided documentation ahead of time, and they base their decisions on presented information on the
day of the hearing. I do not find this fair to the public since we are all volunteering our personal time to
this health and environmental crisis. I am starting to lose trust in the processes and systems in place to
protect our communities.
• The H2S monitors were installed in late August 2022. Since installation, there have been five
(5) exceedances of 30 ppb on 8/27/22 (-140 ppb, the website now says "no data for this
timeframe"), 8/30/22 (31.2 ppb), 8/31/22 (36.3 ppb and 43.5 ppb), and 10/19/22 (34.1 ppb).
H2S is an air toxic according to SCA IVIO Rulle 1401, page 19.
« Since 9/8/2022 (last Order of Abatement), there have been 11 additional Notices of Violations
(NOVs). There is a total of 68 violations since 7/11/2021. We are experiencing long-term
exposure to H2S (and over pollutants of concern), and El Segundo is a highly dense family -
oriented community.
Weekly hearing board updates are all 18 pages long with the same repeated updates. Can the
updates please include tracking progress to completion of the John Zink Hamworthy
Combustion and George T. Hall Company flare inspection and comprehensive evaluation report
submitted on 6/29/22, tracking progress to completion of the Brown and
Cadwell Implementation Plan submitted on 9/24/2022, and lastly, tracking progress to
completion of the Los Angeles Public Works Report of the Ad Hoc Committee dated 2/11/2022.
Can the hearing board updates please include the source test protocol for the flaring and for the
TO-15 (determination of volatile organic compounds), also please include the actual source test
reports. At this point, all confidence in the community has been lost, and we would like these
protocols and reports made public. It is tedious to have to keep doing public record requests for
this information when it can simply be put in the documents tab of H erion's IFIINO ggge.
• Lastly, please review my attachments with referenced links of proof. I have put a great deal of
time into information gathering, and the information I am attaching has not been included in
previous Order of Abatement discussions. Specifically, I have attached Violation P72978 issued
on 2/29/2021 for a 2/19/2018 air monitoring failure. This is a canary in the coal mine as it
demonstrates a clear lack o ro er emission monitorin 8 ears be dre the 11 01'1 s ill.
My attachment also includes 5 exceedances for H2S.
Thank you,
A concern mom (aka Corrie Zupo)
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