COMPOSTING PLAN BACKED BY COUNTY.Byline: Stacy Brown Daily News Staff Writer Despite opposition from environmental groups and area residents, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County supervisors gave the go-ahead Tuesday to turn sewage sludge into garden compost at a west Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley ranch. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San was the only dissenter in the 4-1 vote to direct the county counsel to draw up language for them to give final approval to a permit for the composting facility near 140th Street and Avenue A. Antonovich called for a totally enclosed facility, citing the high winds to which the Antelope Valley is frequently subject, but other supervisors said they didn't see that as posing a hazard. The supervisors' action overturned a county Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle decision to refuse a conditional-use permit for the 67-acre site on the Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County border. Planning commissioners told BioGro, a division of Maryland-based Wheelabrator Clean Water Systems Inc., to permanently enclose the project, in which sewage sludge, grass clippings and plant waste would be piled into windrows 7 feet tall, 18 feet wide and 850 feet long. Local officials were concerned that strong desert winds would blow particulate par·tic·u·late adj. Of or occurring in the form of fine particles. n. A particulate substance. particulate composed of separate particles. emissions from the compost into nearby communities. However, BioGro officials said enclosing the operation would be too expensive and instead proposed a compromise that included submitting yearly reviews, doubling its letter of credit to $10 million for the cleanup of potential problems and putting tarps over material that could blow away. They also proposed shutting down loading and unloading operations whenever the wind exceeded 25 mph. Opponents said tarps aren't adequate. ``We supplied pertinent, new wind data that would cause the shutdown of activities over 60 percent of the time based on the 25-mph wind restriction,'' said Lyle Talbot Lyle Talbot (February 8, 1902 - March 2, 1996), born Lisle Henderson in Pittsburgh but raised in a small Nebraska town, was a Hollywood actor best known for playing Joe Randolph on television's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet , a leader of Desert Citizens Against Pollution and a member of a citizen panel appointed by the county to review BioGro's proposed plan. |
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