Scripps Completes Seafloor Survey of Dumpsite off the Coast

3 Responses

1. If any of the involved parties can be identified, could the area be treated as a hazmat site, with cleanup and remediation paid for by those responsible?

2. Everyone who grew up in the LB & LA harbor area knew about this in the 70″s and nothing was done then and nothing will be done now. As we all heard too many times The Corporation is too big to fail and we all suffer. When will the politicians remember that they are in office to serve the people not the corporations “WE THE PEOPLE”

3. https://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/chemical/pim127.htm#SectionTitle:6.3%20%20Biological%20half-life%20by%20route%20of%20exposure Growing up in the south Bay and fishing the Santa Monica Bay we have all known of this issue for years and it has been 50 years since any dumping has been done the specific gravity of the actual DDT is well above sea water the natural circulation by current sweeps south along the coast offshore down into Baja and across Hawaii it may be prevalent still in the local seabed but the solvents/ Propellants have long dissipated. Stirring up the sentiment at that depth would most likely introduce further contamination I believe. Not alot of critters feed at those depths from the sediment and any that did 50-90 years ago probably adapted to shallower areas perished or just got thru it. Our oceans definitely need protection and mostly from humans interfering with how it deals with life messing with it.