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- TORRANCE, California, December
20, 2000 (ENS) - Four companies will pay $73 million to clean up contamination
from the pesticide DDT and restore the ocean environment off the coast
of Los Angeles. The settlement with the United States and State of California,
filed Tuesday, ends a 10 year suit over the world's largest DDT pollution
site.
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- From 1947 until 1971, the Montrose plant discharged an
estimated 1,800 tons of DDT into Los Angeles County sewers that empty into
the Pacific Ocean. Montrose also dumped hundreds of tons of DDT contaminated
waste into the ocean near Santa Catalina Island.
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- The discharge of DDT through the sewer system created
the largest known area of DDT contamination in the world. More than 110
tons of DDT remains in a 17 square mile layer of contaminated sediment
on the Palos Verdes shelf, an area of the ocean floor off the coast of
Los Angeles.
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