NOAA study finds high levels of pollutants in Guanica Bay 'represent serious toxic threat' to corals, fish

Friday, February 7, 2014 - 10:30 in Earth & Climate

The pollutants measured in the sediments of Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico, in a new NOAA study were among the highest concentrations of PCBs, chlordane, chromium and nickel ever measured in the history of NOAA's National Status & Trends, a nationwide contaminant monitoring program that began in 1986.

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