SURGE IN DISCARDED TRASH CALLED CLERICAL ERROR.Byline: Heather MacDonald Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - A spike in the amount of trash sent from Santa Clarita to area landfills was the result of a paperwork error, the city manager said Monday. The city staff has been working to correct the error since June but only this week brought it to the attention of City Manager George Caravalho, who met Monday with several City Council members to explain the situation. ``This would have been no big deal had it been brought to my attention in the summer,'' Caravalho said. ``We're certainly not trying to hide anything, but mistakes were made.'' About 68,000 tons - 25 percent of the city's total amount of trash - was incorrectly attributed to Santa Clarita in 1999 when they weredumped in area landfills, Caravalho said. Caravalho said city officials suspect the trash mistakenly attributed to Santa Clarita came from Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. , Castaic and other unincorporated areas In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality. To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, i.e., a city or town with its own government. of 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 that surround the city. The city has hired a consultant to trace the trash, a complicated and technical process that involves matching dump tickets from 1999 with those from 1998 to isolate the increase, Caravalho said. If the city is correct, the county's rate of diverting trash from landfills could be affected, Caravalho said. As trash is dumped, landfill operators keep tabs on where it originated, information they send to the state. The state uses that information to determine whether cities and counties are in compliance with a state law requiring recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. and source reduction. ``That's why the numbers are clearly wrong, because this is a city that has been adding recycling programs,'' said David Peterson David Robert Peterson, PC (born December 28, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario) was the twentieth Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, from June 26, 1985 to October 1, 1990. He was the first Liberal premier of Ontario in 42 years. , a city project developer. In 1997 and 1998, the city recycled more than 50 percent of its trash, 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 California Integrated Waste Management Board, a state agency that measures compliance with a state law requiring cities and counties to reduce the amount of trash sent to landfills by 25 percent by 1999 and by 50 percent in 2000. Peterson discovered the spike in June while compiling a state-mandated report on the amount of trash sent from the city to landfills using the waste management board's Web site. |
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