Bill Nelson: “I would like to talk about 1 of those 1,222 sites around the country, 51 of which are in my State, 111 in the State of…”

“I would like to talk about 1 of those 1,222 sites around the country, 51 of which are in my State, 111 in the State of New Jersey, 100 sites in the State of California. One of those sites is about 12 miles west of Orlando near Lake Apopka at a site called the Old Tower Chemical plant which was shut down in 1980 after a plug of witches' brew that had been created in a holding pond as a result of cooking DDT--I am not making this up; it sounds like a fantasy tale but it is true--after cooking this DDT in order to get a chemical byproduct, all of this residue flowed into a holding pond. What they didn't know was that the holding pond was a sink hole that allowed that cooked witches' brew to go right into the water supply, the Floridian aquifer and, even with that sink hole, a plug escaped over the top of the holding pond and into a creek which flowed into Lake Apopka. Today Lake Apopka's population of 4,000 alligators is down to 400. And of those 400, they have found deformities in the alligators.”