Federal officials are spending more than $5 million to help scientists find out if an offshore dump site between Los Angeles and Catalina Island is a threat to the marine environment. Read more from KPBSErik ⤵️
Other companies also dumped chemicals there and Scripps researchers think some of the drops involved raw liquid chemicals that were not contained in barrels.
Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC Santa Barbara are among those hoping to learn how the nearby underwater habitat has been affected by the toxic dump in the San Pedro Basin. Underwater photographers of the debris field revealed deteriorating barrels with ominous rings in the sediment around them.A barrel thought to contain DDT waste products rests on the bottom of the ocean floor off of the coast of Los Angeles, Calif. Undated photo. Many of the barrels, which were dumped between 1947 and 1982, are surrounded by light-colored bacterial matte halos.
“Is this DDT that’s accumulating at these deep sites entering the marine food web at any level, specifically closest to where the dump site is,” said Lihini Aluwihare, a chemical oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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