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Related: About this forumHeart Breaking: Southern California Offshore Toxic Dump
I am posting these two short videos, they're both about six minutes each, so that more people are made aware about a heart breaking matter just off the shore of Southern California where tens of thousands of toxic barrels containing DDT where dumped in previous years. Hopefully we can finally get this matter addressed and maybe get this matter cleaned up.
If you wish to contact California's U.S. Senators to ask if they can get with the scientists in these videos and provide the funding they need. You can get their public contact information here:
https://www.senate.gov/states/CA/intro.htm
On this map if you look where the deep water between Catalina Island and Palos Verdes is and where it says "San Pedro Channel" in yellow letters. That's the location of this dumpsite. You can go to this link and get the full expanded copy of this map. At this link where there's a group of thumbnails this map is the one if you scroll all the way down to the bottom it's the one on the far left.
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Heart Breaking: Southern California Offshore Toxic Dump (Original Post)
Elliot Waves
Jul 2022
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CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)1. Half a million barrels???
We have been such terrible stewards of our planet.
Going to Canada
(169 posts)2. Agree
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hunter
(38,311 posts)3. Most of the animal protein I ate as a kid was fish caught in this oceanic dumping ground.
Sometimes I wonder if that exacerbated some of my chronic health problems. I'm certain the air pollution did. I remember so many days when my eyes burned and it hurt to breathe.
Government regulations worked, the air is cleaner now.