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This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
Montrose Chemical Corporation improperly disposed chemical waste from DDT production, resulting in serious environmental damage to the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles. [ 2 ] Montrose's former main plant in Harbor Gateway South area of Los Angeles [ 3 ] near Torrance, California has been designated as a Superfund site by the United States ...
The Del Amo Superfund Site is located in southern Los Angeles County between the cities of Torrance and Carson. It is a U.S. EPA Region 9 Superfund Site . The waste-disposal site of a rubber manufacturer is one of 94 Superfund Sites in California as of November 29, 2010.
Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known ...
The Waste Disposal Inc. Superfund site is an oil-related contaminated site in the highly industrialized city of Santa Fe Springs in Los Angeles County, California. It is approximately 38 acres (15 ha), with St Paul's high school immediately adjacent to the northeast corner of the site.
In a 1999 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency titled "Inventory of radioactive waste disposals at sea," a grainy map shows that at least 56,261 containers of radioactive waste were ...
As landfill operators struggle to control the chemical reaction, they acknowledge that the amount of contaminated water leaking from the facility has increased from about 20,000 gallons a day to ...
The former Operating Industries Inc. Landfill is a Superfund site located in Monterey Park, California at 900 N Potrero Grande Drive. [1] From 1948 to 1984, the landfill accepted 30 million tons of solid municipal waste and 300 million US gallons (1,100,000 m 3 ) of liquid chemicals. [ 2 ]