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2. Chemical dumps in ocean off Southern California - Wikipedia

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   Waste disposed included refinery wastes, filter cakes and oil drilling wastes, chemical wastes, refuse and garbage, military explosives and radioactive wastes. [1] [2] From 1946 to 1970, over 56,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped into the eastern Pacific Ocean, according to a 1999 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The ...

3. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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   These locations are known as Superfund sites and are placed on the National Priorities List ... Waste Disposal, Inc. Los Angeles: 06/10/1986: 07/22/1987: 08/12/2005 ...

4. The Waste Disposal Inc. Superfund site - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Puente Hills Landfill - Wikipedia

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   Puente Hills Landfill was the largest landfill in the United States, rising 500 feet (150 meters) high and covering 700 acres (2.8 km 2). [1] Originally opened in 1957 in a back canyon in the Puente Hills, the landfill was made to meet the demands of urbanization and waste-disposal east of Los Angeles.

6. List of landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of landfills in the United States.A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment.Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world.

7. Montrose Chemical Corporation of California - Wikipedia

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   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 ...