Western Waste trash-by-rail system rolling again.It gets partners to haul waste to Imperial County landfill Western Waste Industries, which is planning to develop and operate a waste-by-rail system to alleviate Southern California's worsening waste problems, is back on track after finding new partners for the project. Gardena-based Western Waste on Nov. 22 announced that it had signed an agreement with Gold Fields Gold Fields Limited is one of the world’s largest unhedged producers of gold, providing investors with maximum leverage to the gold price. The company was formed in 1998 with the amalgamation of the gold assets of Gold Fields of South Africa Limited and Gencor Limited. Mining Co. and SP Environmental Systems Inc., both of Denver, to develop a rail-linked municipal waste landfill in Imperial County. Western Waste called off talks for undisclosed reasons with Mine Reclamation Mine reclamation is the process of creating useful landscapes that meet a variety of goals, typically creating productive ecosystems (or sometimes industrial or municipal land) from mined land. Corp. of Eagle Mountain, Calif., to develop a waste-by-rail system with a disposal site in Riverside County in early 1990, said Chuck Tobin, corporate director of planning and development for Western Waste. The joint agreement calls for a landfill on mining properties 200 miles southeast 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. owned by Gold Fields and situated near the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad "Southern Pacific" redirects here. For the country-rock band, see Southern Pacific (band) The Southern Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting marks SP) was an American railroad. . The system, to be operated by Western Waste and SP Environmental Systems, will include transfer, recycling and intermodal (switching waste containers from truck to rail) systems. The site would be capable of handling up to 20,000 tons of municipal waste per day from Los Angeles, San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. , Riverside, Orange, Ventura and San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. counties. By comparison, residents of the six counties generate a total of 75,000 tons of waste each day. A stock analyst praised the plan as one which could harvest rich revenues for the company if the Los Angeles County waste disposal sites continue to be shut and the level of demand grows. "If the population keeps growing, there's the potential that this could be a large site," said Randy Scherago, an analyst at investment banking firm Robertson, Stephens & Co. of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . "Right now you have pretty low landfill prices but there is probably inadequate capacity past three to five years from now. These super-regional landfills could do very well when they come on line." The site is expected to have a lifespan of 50 years and could be open as soon as 1994, Tobin said. Western Waste's project is the third entry into the high-stakes race to build a Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, rail-haul disposal facility. The other two projects are Rail-Cycle, a project with a dump in Amboy in San Bernardino County and which is backed by Waste Management of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Inc., the country's largest waste disposal company; and the Eagle Mountain Project, which includes a dump in Eagle Mountain in Riverside County and which is owned by the nation's second-largest waste disposal company, Browning Ferris Industries, as well as Mine Reclamation Corp. The Eagle Mountain Project is furthest along. It released a draft environmental impact report in July and is awaiting approval from the Riverside County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors. It could be operational by early to mid-1993, said Cass Luke, director of external affairs for Pomona-based Mine Reclamation. |
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