Subject: $73 MILLION CLEANUP TARGETS CONTAMINATED OCEAN FLOOR---------
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:54:26 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State
of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
Dear Mr. Helliker,
I thought you might like to read an article entitled: $73 MILLION CLEANUP TARGETS CONTAMINATED OCEAN FLOOR.
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.
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.
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.
For full text and graphics visit: http://ens-news.com/ens/dec2000/2000L-12-20-06.html
Well Mr. Helliker, I would like to point out that this
"registered" POISON called DDT, or dichloro-diphenyl trichloroethane,
has been banned in the U.S. since 1972. Obviously "registered" DDT
remains in the environment for years after use and concentrates in the tissues
of fish and birds - even if it is "banned"!. Yet we STILL have the
pest problems it was supposed to "solve"!
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten
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