Factoid/2005/05/23
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Massive Amounts of DDT and PCBs Still Plague Coastal Waters off the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Califoria
- "At depths as great as 200 feet, about 17 square miles of the Palos Verdes Shelf were declared a Superfund site in 1996, ranking this ocean floor among the nation's most hazardous dumpsites. Today, about 100 tons -- the world's largest DDT deposit -- remains on the ocean floor there, along with 10 tons of industrial compounds called PCBs (poly-chlorinated biphenyls). The chemicals continue to accumulate in marine life." - excerpt from the Los Angeles Times article (free registration required) at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-eagles22may22,1,5338307.story
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