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Heavy dust covers the metal vents of the cashier's window as customers get paid for recycled, scrapped metals at Atlas Iron and Metal Company in Watts, Calif., Monday, April 25, 2022. Educators and community leaders announced a new coalition with the aim to end what they claim is a possible lead and heavy metals contamination risk to students at Jordan High School from the adjacent Atlas Iron and Metal Company scrapyard. Damian Dovarganes - staff, AP

Jordan High School in Watts is contaminated with lead

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By 2UrbanGirls on May 3, 2022 Local News

by Maanvi Singh in Los Angeles

WATTS – As the closing bell rings at Jordan high school, a cacophony of adolescent chatter nearly overpowers the mechanical noises that emanate from the metal recycling plant next door. Students hardly register the lustrous dust – laced with lead, chromium and other contaminants – that settles into the blacktop as they rush out the front gates.

For generations of Jordan students, the mounds of scrap metal behind campus are a familiar sight. The high school opened in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in 1923, while the plant, owned by S&W Atlas Iron & Metal Co has been there since 1949.

ATLAS METALS NEEDS TO GET THE HELL OUT OF WATTS!!

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“Nobody really complained about it, because I guess we just kind of had to get used to it,” said Diana Salvador, who graduated from Jordan high in 2019. But she’s horrified when she thinks back. “We would sit outside, eating lunch while they were throwing scrap pieces around. And we were breathing that air – inhaling lead.”

Paging Congresswoman Nanette Barragan…

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