Easing Dump’s Trash Flow Would Cost $6.9 Million
It would cost nearly $6.9 million a year to divert city street-repair and tree-pruning wastes from the Lopez Canyon Landfill to other public and private dumps, the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Maintenance said Monday.
The city Board of Public Works had studied the diversion as a way to reduce truck trips to the dump in an effort to satisfy part of an order by the California Waste Management Board.
But Edward J. Avila, public works board president, said Monday that the new figures increase his resolve to fight the state order. “It’s not fun . . . trying to explain this, especially when you’re talking about these kinds of monies,” Avila said.
The city won a temporary reprieve from the state order on Aug. 7 in Los Angeles Superior Court, and city representatives plan to make an appeal Thursday before the Waste Management Board in Sacramento.
The order, issued in June, calls for cutting back the number of trucks dumping at Lopez Canyon from 600 to 400 a day, reducing the maximum height of garbage mounds from 1,760 feet to 1,725 feet and confining dumping to 140 acres of the 392-acre site.
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