Hearing Postponed on Landfill Expansion
The Los Angeles Planning Commission has postponed a public hearing set for Tuesday on plans to expand the Lopez Canyon Landfill in Lake View Terrace.
The hearing has been rescheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 21 at the Airtel Plaza Hotel in Van Nuys.
The hearing was postponed because the South Coast Air Quality Management District is conducting hearings into alleged violations of state air pollution laws at the landfill. Neighbors in the Kagel Canyon and Lake View Terrace areas have asked the AQMD hearing board to close the dump.
The Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation wants to almost double the capacity of the city’s only dump to 26 million tons, extending the landfill’s life through the year 2005.
Without the expansion, the landfill must close in 1992, and the city would have to find another place to dump 4,000 tons of household trash collected each day. The dump opened in 1974.
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