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Hearings focus on cleanup of DDT off Palos Verdes coast; The EPA proposes placing sand and silt over part of an estimated 17-square-mile area of ocean floor that is tainted with the pesticide

Posted by: Maven on June 24, 2009 at 6:56 am

From the Los Angeles Times:

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 hot spot in the entire U.S.”

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June 24, 2009 · Filed Under Oceans & Beaches

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One Response to “Hearings focus on cleanup of DDT off Palos Verdes coast; The EPA proposes placing sand and silt over part of an estimated 17-square-mile area of ocean floor that is tainted with the pesticide”

  1. Phentermine. on August 23rd, 2009 1:06 am

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