Agency Buys Parcel for Buffer Around Landfill
A Los Angeles city agency Friday approved the purchase of a 3.3-acre parcel for $50,000 as part of a continuing plan to acquire several hundred acres of buffer property around the controversial, city-owned Lopez Canyon landfill.
The city bought another parcel for the buffer zone late last year, a 166.86-acre tract costing $2,062,000, a city Bureau of Engineering official said.
In 1987, the city adopted a program to buy more than 1,100 acres around Lopez Canyon landfill, to keep residences away from the dump. The landfill proper covers 392 acres.
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