LOCAL : Limits on Lopez Landfill Barred
The city won a court order today preventing the state Solid Waste Management Board from imposing limits on the amount of trash that may be dumped at the Lopez Canyon landfill in the San Fernando Valley.
Envisioning streets flowing with garbage if, as the city argued, it must pay to deposit garbage at private landfills, Superior Court Judge Dzintra I. Janavs told state waste regulators that they failed to impose stricter limits on dumping at Lopez Canyon in 1983, when the city filed a revised permit that was approved.
She said the city should not have to pay the estimated $1.6 million in dumping fees to put the excess garbage elsewhere until Sept. 26, when the city and state agencies are scheduled to return to court for a full-blown hearing in the long-running dispute over the landfill.
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