Demand was still strong in other countries, however, so the chemical plant in Los Angeles kept churning out more. Montrose managed to operate for another 10 years before the factory, looming over Normandie Avenue near Del Amo Boulevard, finally went dark.
A 1958 shipping log shows that 2,310 barrels of “acid sludge” from Montrose Chemical Corporation were dumped in the ocean in the month of January. “It’s just sad, sad, sad,” Chartrand said. “When stuff’s being dumped offshore like that, it’s in the dead of night, nobody’s seeing it. It’s out of sight, out of mind.”
Chartrand and dozens of others were pulled in to testify. Science was disputed in court, evidence debated, expertise challenged. In numerous depositions, former factory workers were grilled on how they operated. They also questioned Chartrand’s calculations of how much DDT went into the ocean and made the point that there was nothing secret or illegal about the dumping at the time. The government, they said, allowed this to happen.
Chartrand did not have a deep-sea robot, but he figured out a way to collect sediment samples and clumps of tar by dragging a large otter trawl net along the seafloor. He also took samples of rattails, kelp bass and other fish from different depths of the ocean. He had a strong suspicion that the disappearance of bald eagles from Catalina was connected to the dumping operations, but he didn’t have the data to confirm it. DDT contamination was also significantly higher in birds that fed on fish, compared with birds that ate mostly rodents and prey on land — another clue that the DDT from the ocean dumping was harming wildlife.
RosannaXia SpecNews1SoCal Pave paradise, put up a parking lot
RosannaXia SpecNews1SoCal Appalling to know our fellow human beings pulled this stunt and SO many like it. 'Hiding' horrible pollutants in the ocean? What worthless trashheaps of people they and ALL their bosses are. Revive the EPA to 10x stronger, as a new branch of the military armed to the teeth.
charliesheen & his brother Emilio uncovered this toxic dumping in the Documentary: Men At work Worth a watch!!!
It's okay though because the corporations probably saved billions dumping it and we wouldn't want any stock shares or executive bonus' affected after all.
CA - the world wide leader in progressive- minded, environmental stewardship...
No wonder LA smells like shit most of the time.
The waters & deserts of the world have always been dumping grounds & we periodically find, or remember that toxic substances were dumped. When we have protections rolled back, it incentivizes some who know the dangers, to get away with dumping.
JoshMankiewicz Omg
“Nobody in their worst nightmares,” he said, “ever thought there would be half a million barrels of DDT waste dumped into the ocean off of L.A. County’s coast.” --Mark Gold GavinNewsom Please prioritize this! but there are detailed manifests:
WTF
RosannaXia A beautifully written, extremely disturbing article. Fantastic reporting.
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Cant we dump this waste in an active volcano somewhere?
Oh, look, the inspiration for a 'Poltergeist' reboot has arrived . . . 😲
krisbeverlin See?! These are the kinds of job-killing regulations those crazy Dem socialists always do! They killed the DDT industry! It’s a big ocean! What’s the real harm?! (Tongue firmly in cheek people...)
I now regret the many times I've swam in the ocean.
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Great. This is just fkn great.
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“...more than 2,000 barrels of DDT-laced sludge were dumped each month...’We found actual photos of the workers at 2 in the morning...not only dumping barrels...in middle of the Santa Monica Basin...but before they would dump the barrels, they would take a big ax or hatchet...”
Now it’s a shit hole of illegals, drug addicted, homeless, looting rioting, rolling blackouts, highest taxes and regulations, and above all the infected leftist voters who are leaving in droves to reinfect red cities and states!
It’s ok Los Angeles pumps sewage into the ocean
But but regulations stifle business.....I mean what are our oceans v an extra .03/share per q?
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Then I became a Dumping Ground for just plain 'acid' in Haight-Ashbury
Smh
What a shame. Big businesseses have always been doing this kind of thing, but are protected by this broken system that protects wrongdoing (actually rewards it). Thereby, allowing greedy, profit-seeking practices to kill the earth! What a crying shame.
Criminal charges should be sought.
This is a horror story.
Not just DDT, but a bunch of other stuff also. All you have to do is look at marine charts to see where the dumps actually are.
when are we gonna learn!
Analogous.
Crazy!!!
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