Residents Sue City Over Trash-Filled Dump
A group of San Fernando Valley residents filed suit in Superior Court Monday against the city of Los Angeles, alleging that trash is being piled too high in the only city-owned garbage dump.
The suit asks that the city be forced to begin dumping in an unused area of the Lopez Canyon Landfill instead of continuing to increase the height of a mound at the current dump site.
Lake View Terrace resident Lewis Snow--one of three plaintiffs who filed the suit--described the growing mound as “a guillotine blade waiting to fall.” Snow said neighbors fear a repeat of a 1983 incident, when a section of the dump collapsed in heavy rainstorms, pouring trash into the yards and streets of Kagel Canyon.
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