Panel OKs Septic Waste Dumping Site
Rejecting the pleas of environmentalist and homeowners, a Los Angeles City Council panel on Monday recommended opening a septic waste dumping site in the Sepulveda Basin.
The Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee voted unanimously to support the recommendations of sanitation officials to make the basin site one of four such locations in the city.
Environmentalists and Encino residents protested the basin location, saying it will harm one of the San Fernando Valley’s largest parks and most sensitive wildlife habitats.
“This is not acceptable and we are going to fight it,” said Peter Ireland, chairman of the Coalition to Save the Sepulveda Basin.
But sanitation officials argued that the site is far from recreation facilities and located within the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant.
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