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A map of Superfund sites in California. This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.
Until 1925, raw sewage from Los Angeles was discharged untreated directly into Santa Monica Bay in the region of the Hyperion Treatment Plant. [ 3 ] With the population increase, the amount of sewage became a major problem to the beaches, so in 1925 the city built a simple screening plant in the 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) it had acquired in 1892.
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.
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The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), formerly known as Rocketdyne, is a complex of industrial research and development facilities located on a 2,668-acre (1,080 ha) [1] portion of Southern California in an unincorporated area of Ventura County in the Simi Hills between Simi Valley and Los Angeles. The site is located approximately 18 miles ...
The Del Amo Superfund Site, located in southern Los Angeles County between the cities of Torrance and Carson, is an 280-acre (110 ha) site at the former location of a synthetic rubber manufacturing plant that was in operation from 1942 until the late 1960s or early 1970s.
Detail of the Los Angeles City Field, showing locations of former wells, and single active well remaining in 2011. The Los Angeles City field is one of many in the Los Angeles Basin. To the west are the still-productive Salt Lake and Beverly Hills fields; to the south is the Los Angeles Downtown Oil Field.
The first working model of the laser was created at Hughes Research Laboratories in 1960 by Theodore Maiman (1927–2007).; HRL began research on atomic clocks in 1959. In the late 1970s they produced experimental maser oscillators for NRL, which eventually led to space-based GPS atomic clocks.