City-County Landfill Gets Council’s Tentative OK
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday tentatively approved a pact with the county to jointly develop a regional garbage dump in Elsmere Canyon in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Los Angeles county officials say that opening the giant landfill, just east of the junction of the Antelope Valley and Golden State freeways, will go a long way toward solving the region’s trash problems for 40 years or more. Sanitation officials say they are hopeful that the 190-million-ton landfill can be in operation by 1995. The council’s 11-2 vote directed negotiators for the city and county to develop a binding agreement.
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