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Coastal News Today | CA - Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A. coast

First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground and that as many as half a million barrels of its acid waste had been poured straight into the water. ....

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Coastal News Today | CA - Roundup: Toxic dumpsites off coast of U.S. Southern California may be times worse

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) The federal investigation into the historic toxic waste dumpsites off the coast of Los Angeles and Catalina, an island southwest of the second largest U.S. city, exposed a far more extensive spread of DDT and other toxic chemicals than anyone had previously estimated. ....

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