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Sanitation officials report monitoring finds no acute public‑health threshold exceedances; arsenic detected at multiple sites
Summary
LA Sanitation presented coastal monitoring data following Palisades fire debris. Multiple agencies sampled water, sediment and tissue; early tests showed elevated zinc and copper in some samples but county officials judged levels below thresholds requiring closures. Arsenic appeared at several sites and city staff said follow‑up seafood tissue
City sanitation and water‑quality staff told the ad hoc recovery committee they have coordinated a multi‑agency sampling effort in Santa Monica Bay after debris from the Palisades fires entered coastal waters, and that follow‑up sampling and tissue testing are planned for the fall.
Stacy Carnio, manager of biology at LA Sanitation, briefed the committee on sampling carried out since February and on joint cruises and shore sampling involving the Regional Water Board, county public health, university partners and state research programs. Carnio said early laboratory results identified elevated concentrations of metals including zinc and copper at some sites but that county public‑health and port authorities…
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