In case anyone is as obsessed as my sister and I with the history of dumping terrible things (DDT, PCBs, random toxic waste, entire railcars, etc.) into the Santa Monica Bay, a late November report from the EPA is surprising me with recent clarifications:
“Instead, acid waste containing DDT was stored in large above-ground storage tanks, transported to the Port of Los Angeles in tanker trucks, pumped to Cal Salvage’s barges that were later towed to Disposal Site #2, and dumped into the ocean.”
https://www.epa.gov/ocean-dumping/southern-california-ocean-disposal-site-2-investigation
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The report continues “ The evidence collected to date also shows that the barrels referenced in the LA Times article likely contain other chemical substances. “
I am definitely going to look through (and offline quickly!) the associated reports!
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@cvwarren We were pretty stupid thinking chucking barrels out into the ocean would make them go away.
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@ai6yr my ‘favorite’ part is the complete mystery of what was even in the barrels—everyone lied about having done it or pretended not to know for so long there doesn’t seem to be any record or institutional knowledge about it. Somebody is going to have to go down and look (or continue to guess through what has already escaped into the ecosystem)
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