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A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public airing Tuesday ? nearly four decades after the poison was banned from use.
The estimated $36 million proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calls for a cover of sand and silt to be placed over the most contaminated part of the estimated 17-square-mile area declared a Superfund site in 1996.
The cap won't clean the site, but it could reduce the health risks for people who eat fish caught off the Palos Verdes coast, said Mark Gold, executive director of the watchdog group Heal the Bay.
"I think it's a huge development," he said. "We have the worst DDT hotspot in the entire U.S."
In 2000, the now-defunct Montrose firm and three other chemical companies agreed to pay a total of $73 million to help restore the ocean environment off Palos Verdes, located southwest of the Port of Los Angeles.
Another $64.5 million came from the Los Angeles County Sanitation District, which operated the sewers, about 150 municipalities that used the sewers and three other companies that passed DDT into the ocean.
Whenever I read about something like this, I always wonder how come the people who owned the Montrose Company can get away without paying all the money to clean up their mess?
Oh, that's right. They're a CORPORATION and we don't hold the owners responsible.
A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public airing Tuesday ? nearly four decades after the poison was banned from use.
The estimated $36 million proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calls for a cover of sand and silt to be placed over the most contaminated part of the estimated 17-square-mile area declared a Superfund site in 1996.
The cap won't clean the site, but it could reduce the health risks for people who eat fish caught off the Palos Verdes coast, said Mark Gold, executive director of the watchdog group Heal the Bay.
"I think it's a huge development," he said. "We have the worst DDT hotspot in the entire U.S."
In 2000, the now-defunct Montrose firm and three other chemical companies agreed to pay a total of $73 million to help restore the ocean environment off Palos Verdes, located southwest of the Port of Los Angeles.
Another $64.5 million came from the Los Angeles County Sanitation District, which operated the sewers, about 150 municipalities that used the sewers and three other companies that passed DDT into the ocean.
Whenever I read about something like this, I always wonder how come the people who owned the Montrose Company can get away without paying all the money to clean up their mess?
Oh, that's right. They're a CORPORATION and we don't hold the owners responsible.
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