DISPOSAL DECISION DELAYED; RESIDENTS OPPOSE SEPTIC WASTE SITE.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer A City Council panel delayed action Noun 1. delayed action - a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture Tuesday on whether a site next to the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys should be one of four locations designated for dumping septic tank septic tank, underground sedimentation tank in which sewage is retained for a short period while it is decomposed and purified by bacterial action. The organic matter in the sewage settles to the bottom of the tank, a film forms excluding atmospheric oxygen, and waste into the sewer system. Residents of the area have opposed establishing a dump site next to the plant. The council's Budget and Finance Committee ordered the two-week delay to allow haulers to talk with Sanitation Bureau officials about reducing proposed fees for waste coming from outside the city. Council members including Richard Alatorre, the committee's chairman, said they are prepared to endorse opening dumping sites at Tillman in the Sepulveda Basin, an area near Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX and a site on 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . A fourth site in the east San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. has not yet been selected. ``All three (selected) locations are safe from an environmental standpoint and are currently being used,'' said Stephen Wong, an assistant city administrative officer. However, the Tillman site is opposed by residents including William Jasper, president of the Encino Property Owners Association, who asked that city officials conduct more review on the potential effects of the project on the environment. ``The public is adamantly opposed to the opening of this facility in this location,'' Jasper said. ``We don't feel we should become the dumping site from trucks coming from all over the county.'' Jasper also noted that the Tillman site is in an area prone to flooding, adding that the money being used to develop the dumping station comes from bonds approved by voters to clean up Santa Monica Bay Santa Monica Bay is an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern California, United States. Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn between Point Dume . |
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