Local News in Brief : Private Firm Planning to Open Elsmere Canyon Dump by ’91
Aprivate landfill company hopes to begin work on a municipal and commercial dump in Elsmere Canyon, just outside the Santa Clarita city limits, by the middle of 1991, the company’s president said Tuesday.
Ken Kazarian, president of BKK, said the West Covina company already has applied for a conditional-use permit from Los Angeles County and hopes to complete an environmental impact report within 12 to 14 months. If all goes as planned, Kazarian said, the company could obtain permits to operate the landfill from Los Angeles County and the state within 3 years.
Kazarian spoke at a daylong seminar on landfills and waste sponsored by the Santa Clarita Valley and Canyon Country chambers of commerce. Elsmere Canyon is east of the Golden State Freeway and south of the Antelope Valley Freeway, just outside the city of Los Angeles.
The Santa Clarita City Council has not formally opposed Elsmere Canyon as a dump site, but council members have expressed fears that a dump there could contaminate the city’s water supply.
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