More than 27,000 barrels of what potentially could be the toxic chemical DDT are on the ocean floor between the Palos Verdes Peninsula and Catalina Island, according to a survey scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography released Monday, April 26. The survey, conducted from March 10 to 24, mapped more than 36,000 […]
LOS ANGELES After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be far worse and far more sweeping than what scientists anticipated.
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.