State Board Rescinds Trash-Dumping Order
Bowing to a court ruling, a state agency Wednesday agreed to rescind a controversial order that would have limited trash dumping at Lopez Canyon Landfill.
The California Integrated Waste Management Board, by a 7-0 margin, agreed to back away from its July order, which directed the city of Los Angeles to reduce the height of garbage mounds and the number of trucks dumping daily at the northeast San Fernando Valley landfill.
But a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled in September that the 1978 permit that state officials used to restrict dumping in the landfill--destination for two-thirds of Los Angeles’ residential waste--is out of date and vague.
Robert F. Conheim, the waste board’s attorney, said it would not be in the interest of the people of the state to appeal the judge’s order.
Instead, Conheim urged the board to vacate its order, in part, because Los Angeles has begun to restrict some activities--such as the number of trucks using the Lopez Canyon dump.
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