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The Hazardous Waste and Substances Sites List, also known as the Cortese List—named for Dominic Cortese—or California Superfund, is a planning document used by the State of California and its various local agencies and developers to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act requirements in providing information about the location of hazardous materials release sites.
The Hazardous Waste Control Act of 1972 [3] established legal standards for hazardous waste. Accordingly, in 1972, the Department of Health Services (now called the California Health and Human Services Agency) created a hazardous waste management unit, staffing it in 1973 with five employees concerned primarily with developing regulations and setting fees for the disposal of hazardous waste.
The Stringfellow Acid Pits are a toxic waste dump and Superfund site located in Jurupa Valley, California, United States, just north of the neighborhood of Glen Avon.. The site became the center of national news coverage in the early 1980s, in part because it was considered one of the most polluted sites in California, and because it became linked with mismanagement and scandal in the U.S ...
Satellite image of Hinkley, Barstow and Harper Lake, California. From 1952 to 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped about 370 million U.S. gallons (1.4 × 10 9 liters) of chromium-tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles (190 kilometers) north-northeast of Los Angeles.
Waste slurry from the gold extraction was stored behind a 60 foot (18 m) high log dam located at the mouth of a nearby ravine.During a January 1997 storm, the log dam collapsed, releasing 10,000 cubic yards of arsenic-rich tailings downstream into the Little Clipper Creek and watershed, including Lost Lake.
Spring Creek Debris Dam is an earthfill dam on Spring Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River, in Shasta County in the U.S. state of California.Completed in 1963, the dam, maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, serves primarily to collect severe acid mine drainage stemming from the Iron Mountain Mine. [1]
Feral pigeons on the Empire State Building. The environment of New York City consists of many interwoven ecosystems as part of the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary.The climate of New York City shapes the environment with its cool, wet winters and hot, humid summers with plentiful rainfall all year round.
Alameda Point is the name given to the lands of the former Naval Air Station Alameda in the City of Alameda, CaliforniaAlameda Point consists of 1,560 acres (6.3 km 2) of land area at the western end of the island of Alameda. [1]