Landscaping Enhancement Project Underway

In the second quarter of 2024, the Torrance Refinery initiated a large-scale landscaping improvement project with community input. This project focuses on enhancing the refinery’s perimeter by removing dead, unhealthy, and/or diseased trees, shrubs, and other vegetation. Consulting with local arborists, we will remove damaged and diseased trees and shrubs, and replace them with new, low-water requirement, flowering trees.

In all, we will plant a total of 134 new trees along the Torrance Refinery fenceline, spanning West 190th Street from Prairie to Van Ness Avenues. A total of 58 Crepe Myrtle trees will be planted on W. 190th Street between Prairie Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard, and 76 new trees will be planted on W. 190th Street between Crenshaw and Van Ness Boulevards.

To efficiently maintain soil and water resources, and protect healthy plants, we will continue removing dead shrubbery, overgrowth, and unhealthy trees around the refinery perimeter in the future, as needed.

We hope this first phase of our landscaping improvement project will be well-received by the community.

We are excited about our landscaping improvement project, and we ask our neighbors for their patience and understanding while crews are working to improve the view of our refinery, which has been an economic anchor of Torrance for 95 years.