Local News in Brief : Panel Votes to Limit Dumping at Landfill
The Los Angeles Board of Zoning Appeals has voted to sharply limit dumping at the Sunshine Canyon Landfill after 1989.
The board refused to revoke the zoning variance that allows the Granada Hills landfill to operate, but it ordered that all dumping in the landfill’s primary filling area stop at the end of next year.
Dean Wise, the dump’s general manager, told the appeals board that closing the landfill’s primary dumping area could force the facility to accept only 10% of the trash it now takes. The 300-acre landfill accepts more than 7,000 tons of trash a day, or about 15% of all the refuse in Los Angeles County.
After complaints from area residents, a city zoning administrator ruled in September that the dump was too high, that dumping or grading had occurred too close to a ridgeline and that dust and litter had blown into a nearby neighborhood.
The dump’s owner, Browning-Ferris Industries, vowed to appeal the latest decision to the City Council.
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