JUDGE'S STAY HALTS ROAD USE AT LANDFILL.Byline: Patrick McGreevy and Daniel Taub Daily News Staff Writers A Superior Court judge issued a temporary stay Monday prohibiting Sunshine Canyon Landfill operators from using an access road for dumping trash in the expansion area, but dump officials said the order will have no immediate impact. Judge Robert O'Brien barred landfill operators from using the road until a May 30 hearing on whether the stay should be extended. But dump operators say they did not plan to start using the road for trash dumping until July 1 anyway. Even so, dump opponents were pleased that the dump would not open until they had their day in court. ``It is a victory. It's what we asked for,'' said Rosemary Woodlock, the attorney for residents challenging the use of the road. Woodlock said she hopes the judge will extend the stay at the next hearing so that it would affect the city's use of the landfill to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose trash being diverted from Lopez Canyon Landfill. The stay issued Monday does not prevent the landfill operators from using the road for construction trucks preparing the dump for accepting additional trash in July. Earlier Monday, Sunshine Canyon Landfill opponents won another small victory when they convinced the 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. Regional Water Quality Control Board to hold a public hearing on the design of the lining of the soon-to-be-expanded landfill. ``For us, we're getting our full-court hearing. This is very important to us,'' said Mary Edwards, spokeswoman for the North Valley Coalition, which has been outspoken against the landfill's expansion. The opponents - which also include the Los Angeles chapter of the Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club - say they are concerned that a major earthquake similar to the 6.7-magnitude 1994 Northridge temblor could contaminate con·tam·i·nate v. 1. To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture. 2. To expose to or permeate with radioactivity. con·tam·i·nant n. a water line that runs within 500 feet of the landfill. During the June 10 meeting, opponents will have the chance to present evidence that the design of the plastic-and-clay lining is not adequate to prevent seepage from the landfill into the Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). Tunnel after a major earthquake, said Rod Nelson, head of the landfills unit of the Los Angeles Water Quality Control Board. The lining was damaged in the Northridge Earthquake The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California. The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6. , he said. But in the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , landfill owner Browning-Ferris Industries' lining plan - which was approved by the state's Department of Water Resources late last month - was not rescinded by the board, and BFI BFI - brute force and ignorance is free to install the lining, Nelson said. However, Nelson said, if the board finds that opponents have valid complaints, BFI could be held responsible for any changes in the lining design that result. BFI spokesman Arnie Berghoff said he does not expect the hearing to result in any changes to the lining plan. ``It's been thoroughly reviewed for over 15 months. I'm not sure a public hearing will change anything,'' Berghoff said. Berghoff said the lining could be installed in as soon as two weeks in preparation for a proposed July 1 opening for the landfill expansion. ``The board did not rescind To declare a contract void—of no legal force or binding effect—from its inception and thereby restore the parties to the positions they would have occupied had no contract ever been made. rescind v. in any shape or form the liner (on Monday). There's no reason we can't proceed with that,'' Berghoff said. |
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