Local News in Brief : Council Panel OKs 2 Landfill Contracts
A Los Angeles City Council committee Wednesday approved new one-year contracts for dumping garbage at the Sunshine Canyon Landfill above Granada Hills and Bradley West Landfill in Sun Valley.
The Public Works Committee made the recommendation after being told that the city, for a few months in late 1988, could be faced with no place to dump its 5,500 tons a day of household trash.
City-owned Lopez Canyon Landfill, above Lake View Terrace, is the repository for most of the city’s trash. Lopez Canyon, however, will be full in October of 1988, city sanitation officials estimate, and an expansion there will not be completed until February, 1989.
The contracts with the privately operated landfills will enable the city to reduce the amount of trash going to Lopez Canyon, allowing the dump to remain open until the expansion is completed.
The committee recommendation calls for increasing the amount of trash going to Bradley West from 24,000 tons a year to 120,000 tons a year. Sunshine Canyon now receives 175,000 tons of city trash a year. That level would be maintained for one year under the committee recommendation.
The contracts will cost the city about $2 million.
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