GROUP FIGHTS LANDFILL GROWTH STATE BOARD MULLS DUMP EXPANSION.Byline: Kerry Cavanaugh Staff Writer A handful of Sunshine Canyon Landfill neighbors urged state officials Monday to block expansion into Granada Hills, saying the full environmental impact of the dump had not been adequately studied. The California Integrated Waste Management Board is expected to vote next Tuesday on Browning Ferris Industries' request for a permit to build an 84-acre landfill inside the city limits, adjacent to the existing dump in unincorporated 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. The permit would cover only the first five-year phase, but BFI BFI - brute force and ignorance ultimately aims to join its city and county landfills into a single dump capable of holding 90 million tons of trash. Testifying in Sacramento, North Valley Coalition President Wayde Hunter criticized the incremental permitting of the landfill, saying the waste board should consider the future expansions of the project and their impacts. ``These guys are dancing back and forth over some imaginary line In general, an imaginary line is any sort of line that has only an abstract definition, and does not exist in fact. As a geographical concept, an imaginary line may serve as an arbitrary division (such as a border). in the canyon,'' Hunter said. But BFI Projects Director Dave Edwards
David Monroe Edwards told the waste board committee the company had always envisioned a joint city-county landfill and had completed the environmental studies for the project. He also said the landfill was needed to meet the region's disposal needs. ``Over 6,000 tons of city waste goes into the county side, displacing county waste,'' he said. The City Council approved the permit in 1999, although Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Rockard John "Rocky" Delgadillo (born July 15 1960) is the current City Attorney of Los Angeles, California. Career
intr. & tr.v. de·railed, de·rail·ing, de·rails 1. To run or cause to run off the rails. 2. the project. Neither sent a representative to the hearing. County officials have threatened to stop the dumping of waste from inside city limits until city officials agree to allow the expansion. The Waste Management Board is scheduled to conduct another public hearing and vote on the proposed permit at 3 p.m. May 13 in Sacramento. However, a teleconference will be set up at the Metropolitan Water District office, 13100 Balboa Blvd., Granada Hills, Waste Board officials will be at the office at 9 a.m. to answer questions. |
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