SLOPPY DUMP ROAD DIVERTS TRASH.Byline: Kerry Cavanaugh Staff Writer The city of Los Angeles
Up to 3,000 tons per day of residential trash was trucked to dumps in Calabasas, the 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 , Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. and Orange County. Bureau of Sanitation officials couldn't say Thursday exactly how much trash they had to divert or how much extra the city had to pay in fuel, labor and disposal fees. However, the other facilities charged $3 to $13 per ton above the $23-per-ton disposal fee charged by Browning Ferris Industries, which operates Sunshine Canyon Landfill 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, just outside Granada Hills. The problem occurred because the landfill's dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n wasn't well-prepared with rock or asphalt to prevent rain from turning it into a muddy mess, raising the risk that trucks could slide or stick. ``They couldn't repair or maintain the access road to get in and out safely and to their benefit, they didn't try,'' Los Angeles County on-site inspector Richard Lange Richard Lange (born October 19, 1961 in Oakland, California) is an American writer. He is a long-time resident of the Silver Lake neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles. Lange graduated from from Morro Bay High School, on California's Central Coast, in 1979. said. BFI BFI - brute force and ignorance officials said the problem is uncommon and that the city bears partial blame. Political opposition to expanding the dump into Granada Hills delayed the permits needed to begin construction, so disposal is concentrated on one corner of the existing dump, served by just one dirt road. ``If we hadn't received all these delays on opening the landfill (expansion), then we wouldn't be in this situation,'' said Greg Loughnane, district manager for BFI. Because of the slowdown, sanitation officials had to divert all the trash on Oct. 19, right after the first rain, and continued to take part of the city's trash elsewhere until Wednesday. ``Rain is an act of God. We can't say, Sunshine, you're responsible,'' said Enrique Zaldivar, head of solid waste for the city Bureau of Sanitation. ``It may be something we just have to live with.'' Kerry Cavanaugh, (818) 713-3746 kerry.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com |
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