Neighbors blast the plan to expand Puente Hills landfill, promise action.The Roski family, one of the largest real estate developers in 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, plans to file a lawsuit to halt the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts from operating the largest landfill in Los Angeles County, an attorney for the Roskis told the Business Journal last week. Marlene A. Fox, attorney for the family's RR&C Development Corp., said she will institute a suit against the board of the Sanitation Districts this week if it votes to approve expansion of the Puente Hills Puente Hills is a chain of hills in an unincorporated area in eastern Los Angeles County, California. It lies to the south of the San Gabriel Valley and the Pomona Freeway (California State Route 60), to the east of the San Gabriel River Freeway (Interstate 605), to the north of landfill. The Roskis want to "protect their interest" in a $100 million office project which is next to the landfill, she said. The vote is scheduled for Nov. 25. Puente Hills currently takes one-third of the trash generated in Los Angeles County. Plans are being considered to expand the landfill's size by 260 acres and allow the dump to continue operating for an additional 20 years. Opponents contend the expansion poses a threat to the area's groundwater. The representatives of the Districts assert the landfill is not over a drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. supply, but lies on a bedrock that separates two different groundwater basins. The Puente Hills landfill, at the intersection of the Pomona and San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. Freeways, is owned by the Sanitation Districts, a joint powers authority A Joint Powers Authority (JPA) is an institution permitted under the laws of some states of the USA, whereby two or more public authorities (e.g. local governments, or utility or transport districts) can operate collectively. of 79 cities in the county. The current permit which allows dumping at the site will expire in November 1993. If the Roskis, best known as the principals of Majestic Realty Co., are successful, Los Angeles County will have no place locally to dump its waste next year, said Theresa Dodge, Sanitation Districts project manager. Garbage would have to be hauled out of the county and perhaps out of state, which would boost the cost of waste disposal by $200 million to $400 million annually, she said. Ed Roski Sr. and Ed Roski Jr. are two of the three partners in RR&C Development, which owns the Crossroads Business Center, a 110-acre site where 1.5 million square feet of Class A office space is planned adjacent to the Puente Hills landfill. Members of the Roski family are also the principals of Majestic Reality, which owns 18 million square feet of office space in Los Angeles County, making them the largest commercial real estate developers in the county, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Los Angeles Business Journal's List of the largest commercial real estate developers in Los Angeles County. RR&C attorney Fox said she intends to serve the Sanitation Districts board with a notice of commencement of action commencement of action n. an action (a lawsuit) commences (begins officially) when the party suing files a written complaint or petition with the clerk of the court. (See: complaint, petition) at this week's meeting if it approves the Environmental Impact Report, which Fox contends violates the California Environmental Quality Act The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is a California law (California Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq.) passed in 1970, shortly after the Federal Government passed the National Environmental Policy Act. . Fox said she then intends to seek an order to prevent the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. and other government agencies from approving the Puente Hills expansion. In order to continue operating past November 1993, the landfill expansion plan needs approval from the Board of Supervisors, the regional Water Quality Control Board and the state Integrated Waste Management Board. Richard Marsh Richard Marsh is the name of:
In addition to the threatened lawsuit, Fox said she filed suit Nov. 10 against the Sanitation Districts to challenge its action in moving tons of asphalt materials from Puente Hills to another site, Pomona's Spadra landfill which is also owned by the districts. The Sanitation Districts board voted on Oct. 14 to approve the project and also at that meeting approved a negative declaration, stating that an environmental impact report was not necessary, according to the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. That suit charges the action violates the state environmental law because the districts did not examine the environmental impacts of moving the asphalt. Marsh, the Sanitation Districts' attorney, declined to comment on the lawsuit filed last week, saying he had not had time to review it. The landfill expansion is opposed by hundreds of Hacienda Heights residents, who appeared at public meetings last summer to oppose it. The planned expansion would bring the landfill to within 1,000 feet of homes and a junior high school. Homeowner group members also testified at a Nov. 10 meeting that they plan to sue. |
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