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2021-05-01 22:05:59 GMT2021-05-02 06:05:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Julia Pierrepont III
LOS ANGELES, May 1 (Xinhua) In the latest chapter in a decades-old pollution scandal that spawned one of the worst toxic waste sites in America, ocean scientists said early this week that they had found approximately 27,000 barrels on the ocean floor in Los Angeles s coastal waters that were believed to contain DDT, the toxic pesticide banned in the United States in 1972.
Prompted by widespread reports of historic toxic dumping and lingering concerns from researchers and scientists, University of California San Diego s Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers searched for a rumored undersea toxic dump site by mapping over 56 square miles (145 square kilometers) of the California seabed between Los Angeles and Catalina Island in March.
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Marine scientists have discovered a toxic waste dump in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California that includes more than 25,000 barrels of highly toxic, widely banned pesticide DDT.