Apr 27, 2021 10:52 PM EDT
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Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, collected 27,345 "barrel-like" photographs. They surveyed over 36,000 acres of the seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and the Los Angeles peninsula, in an area where elevated levels of the toxic chemical had previously been discovered in sediments and the environment.
DDT Dumping
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Before 1972, when the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, also known as the Ocean Dumping Act, was passed, historical shipping records indicate that mining industries in southern California used the basin as a dumping area.