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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 barrels were dumped at sites ranging from Alaska to Southern California. [3] Montrose Chemical Corporation manufactured DDT during the years 1947 to 1983 at its plant near Torrance, California. The plant discharged wastewater containing the now-banned pesticide into Los Angeles sewers that emptied into the Pacific Ocean off White Point on ...
Map of the United States with California highlighted. California is a state located in the Western United States. It is the most populous state and the third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2020 United States Census, California has 39,538,223 inhabitants and 155,779.22 square miles (403,466.3 km 2) of land. [1]
This list of current: cities; towns, unincorporated communities; counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of California. Information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable are also included.
ZIP code: 95668. Area code(s) 916, 279: GNIS feature ID: 230798 [1] Pleasant Grove is an unincorporated community in Sutter County, California, United States.
When a group of local families decided to establish a school in 1859, they settled on a site near present-day Cherokee Lane and Turner Road. In 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad was in the process of creating a new route, and pioneer settlers Ezekiel Lawrence, Reuben Wardrobe, A. C. Ayers, and John Magley offered a townsite of 160 acres (0.65 km 2) to the railroad as an incentive to build a ...
Wasco (formerly, Dewey and Deweyville) [7] is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, United States.Wasco is located 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Bakersfield, [7] at an elevation of 328 feet (100 m). [5]
In the early part of the 20th century, Loomis was the second largest fruit-shipping station in Placer County, Newcastle California, just 6 mi (9.7 km) east of Loomis, was considered the largest. [11] Loomis remained part of unincorporated Placer County until December 17, 1984, when the Town of Loomis officially incorporated.