L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground (2020)

Re:L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground (2020) by refurb on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:02PM (#31701308)

I mean the US government itself was dumping mustard gas and other toxic chemicals into this area for decades.

Not sure the DDT ranks that high of concern.

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Re:L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground (2020) by joecool1029 on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:28PM (#31701426)

>Not sure the DDT ranks that high of concern.

The studies linking aquatic harm are actually better than the studies linking terrestrial or avian harm. As it's poorly soluble in water it just sorta hangs around and kills fish. This was known all the way back in the 1940's https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy-pdfs/CI...

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Re:L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground (2020) by Aloha on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:03PM (#31701313)

DDT has a long persistence in the environment, longer than mustard.

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Re:L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground (2020) by refurb on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:18PM (#31701372)

Sure but mustard kills you dead real quick. And is slowly leaking even decades later. It hasn’t gone away.

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Re:L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground (2020) by mftb on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:30PM (#31701433)

Agreed mustard is terrible. We should get that cleaned up immediately as well.

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Re:L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground (2020) by trash_goblin on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:42AM (#31701990)

Weird that you think this is some sort of completion, weirder that you picked a side.

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Re:L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground (2020) by refurb on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:27AM (#31702433)

If your goal is just to cluck your tongue on the internet, then yeah, it's not a competition.

If you're looking to spend limited resources addressing it, spending it on the worse situation is just smart.

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