The project follows a comprehensive agreement between the company and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.
The agreement includes the replacement of on-site underground storm-water piping with advanced double-walled system with a cost of over $4m.
Construction has been started with completion time of 2013 end.
Exide president and CEO Robert Caruso said that the company continues to strive to make its Vernon plant a premier recycling facility and consider the health and safety of the community and its workforce a top priority.
"Exide has taken aggressive steps to install new equipment at the plant and those efforts have paid off in substantially reducing emissions," Caruso added.
To curb emissions from the plant, the company will start installing additional high-efficiency filters in October 2013, while an another device will be installed later for organic emissions reduction.
