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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 ...
The Hazardous Waste and Substances Sites List, also known as the Cortese List—named for Dominic Cortese—or California Superfund, is a planning document used by the State of California and its various local agencies and developers to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act requirements in providing information about the location of hazardous materials release sites.
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 ...
A large area surrounding the dump was found to have significant soil and groundwater contamination and Casmalia Resources was declared a Superfund site, the first in Santa Barbara County. Plans for containment of the site were put into place and a long-term management plan was approved. [10] A series of lawsuits were filed as the federal ...
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 ...
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 ...
And in the process of digging up old records, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discovered that from the 1930s to the early 1970s, 13 other areas off the Southern California coast had also ...
The Halaco Superfund Site is a 43 acres (17 ha) nonferrous metal recycling facility that operated primarily to process aluminum and magnesium metals from 1965 to 2004. The site is located on both sides of the Oxnard Industrial Drain (OID), which flows through a perennial beach lagoon and wetlands adjacent to Ormond Beach that extends from Port Hueneme to the northwestern boundary of Navy Base ...