In 1975, The Milpitas Monster told the story of a creature born of a garbage dump that crashed a high school party, and ultimately faced an abrupt death by getting fatally entangled in the town's television transformer tower. Its a good monster movie, and in hindsight, a kind of unknowning introduction to the history of Silicon Valley. It was around this time, that the burgeoning electronic companies in the valley would begin burying enormous chemical waste in the ground all along the neighborhoods near the 101. Santa Clara has more EPA superfund sites than any other county in the country. There are 29, each a red dot on this map below. (Yes, Milpitas has one.) Note their correlation to low-income neighborhoods here.
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