the previous borough halls meeting was scheduled to address interests of the community about a bronze plating manufacturing site that lobbied to the aqmd for a permit to expands its facilities to increase pollution exposure . parents and teachers were troubled over the statements that the mill was found remotely adjacent to roosevelt avenue church , and that their infants were experiencing high levels of lead , neurological problems , excessive nose - cutting , and leukemia .
There is an outbreak of leukemia among children in California.