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The map below shows 13 of the 14 dump sites from the 1973 SCCWRP map; the missing fourteenth site is off the southern edge of the map, located at 31.847120N 118.57122W, off the coast of Mexico. The map below uses the same site numbering as the 1973 SCCWRP map. [1] The map below includes two sites which are not included in the 1973 map: the ...
The Casmalia Resources Hazardous Waste Landfill was a 252–acre disposal facility located in the hills near Casmalia, California. During its operation, 4.5 billion pounds of hazardous waste from up to 10,000 individuals, businesses and government agencies were dumped on site. The facility was closed in 1989, [1] and is now a listed as a ...
The Frank R. Bowerman Landfill is a landfill in the western Santa Ana Mountains, in Orange County, California. It opened in 1990 [1] and is located between Limestone Canyon Regional Park and State Route 241. [2] It is one of the largest landfills in California and the ninth largest in the United States. [3] It contains an estimated 31 million ...
WWII-era munitions found under water in survey of Southern California industrial waste dump site ... ground for industrial and chemical waste from the 1930s through the 1970s. ... some 300 hours ...
The Stringfellow Acid Pits are a toxic waste dump and Superfund site located in Jurupa Valley, California, United States, just north of the neighborhood of Glen Avon.. The site became the center of national news coverage in the early 1980s, in part because it was considered one of the most polluted sites in California, and because it became linked with mismanagement and scandal in the U.S ...
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 ...
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] Accumulating over time, the chemical waste polluted the ...
In January, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board informed the cities of Albany and Berkeley that a former chemical plant had disposed of 11,100 tons of industrial waste at their ...