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After a back-up at the Hyperion Water Plant Reclamation Plant, 17 million gallons of untreated waste were dumped into the ocean Sunday night, closing El Segundo and Dockweiler beaches.
Life guard towers along Dockweiler State Beach
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L.A. County Department of Public Works says treated wastewater is normally released into the ocean through a pipe that lets out five miles off the coast.
When debris clogged up the system, threatening to shut down the plant and spew a massive amount of sewage into the ocean, it triggered a failsafe operation, causing the wastewater to be released just one mile off the beach for about eight hours.
2021-05-01 22:05:59 GMT2021-05-02 06:05:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Julia Pierrepont III
LOS ANGELES, May 1 (Xinhua) In the latest chapter in a decades-old pollution scandal that spawned one of the worst toxic waste sites in America, ocean scientists said early this week that they had found approximately 27,000 barrels on the ocean floor in Los Angeles s coastal waters that were believed to contain DDT, the toxic pesticide banned in the United States in 1972.
Prompted by widespread reports of historic toxic dumping and lingering concerns from researchers and scientists, University of California San Diego s Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers searched for a rumored undersea toxic dump site by mapping over 56 square miles (145 square kilometers) of the California seabed between Los Angeles and Catalina Island in March.
A waste barrel dumped off the Los Angeles coast.
Image: DAVID VALENTINE, UC SANTA BARBARA / AUV SENTRY
2021-04-30 14:47:09 UTC
A sprawling dumpsite off the Los Angeles coast, littered with barrels of waste, had been mostly hidden from the public eye for over half a century. Now, marine scientists revealed the field of submerged waste, some of it likely toxic.
They detected around
27,000 barrels.
Over two weeks in March, scientists with NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography dropped two autonomous underwater vehicles (they look like small submarines) into the ocean, approximately 12 miles off the coast. The researchers knew barrels holding waste laden with toxic chemicals like DDT were down there: Limited, though telltale footage and past records hinted at the magnitude of last century s massive dumping campaign. But the robots, using sonar technology to scour 36,000 acres of the seafloor, proved it.
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