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Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Monday that toxic chemical DDT waste barrels that were dumped near Santa Catalina Island decades ago are impacting marine life and could be a public health hazard.
A deep-sea mission to map the number of DDT waste barrels that were dumped has found more than 27,000 containers spread over the sea floor. Sonar imaging shows vast trails of debris extending across an area the size of San Francisco. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories.
The findings come after The Los Angeles Times reported last fall that the nation s largest DDT manufacturer once dumped its waste into the deep ocean.
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When the research vessel Sally Ride set sail for Santa Catalina Island to map an underwater graveyard of DDT waste barrels, its crew had high hopes of documenting for the first time
just how many corroded containers littered the seafloor off the coast of
Los Angeles.
But as the scientists on deck began interpreting sonar images gathered by two deep-sea robots, they were quickly overwhelmed. It was like trying to count stars in the Milky Way.
The dumpsite, it turned out, was much, much bigger than expected. After spending two weeks surveying a swath of seafloor larger than the city of San Francisco, the scientists could find no end to the dumping ground. They could’ve kept going in any direction, they said, and uncovered even more.