Landfill Foe
The time has come for Waste Management Inc. to gracefully back out of its Gregory Canyon project, realizing the enormous opposition it has encountered from the public, from the press and from the San Diego County Planning Commission (“Panel Rejects All 3 Choices for County Landfill,” Sept. 1).
As a good public relations gesture, Waste Management Inc. should turn over to the Pala Band of Mission Indians the area of Sacred Mountain that it owns, and abandon the project at Gregory Canyon. This might open the door for its future participation in landfill operations in San Diego County and could give the company the public support it would need to reverse the county’s policy.
The Planning Commission made it absolutely clear that Gregory Canyon and the two other sites in North County were the worst choices possible for landfills because they would endanger the county’s water resources.
It is hoped that their clear message will reach the Board of Supervisors and that other sites previously disregarded will be restudied. There are several in the county that would not imperil our precious water resources, nor desecrate hallowed Indian grounds.
Waste Management Inc. should remember that being the biggest in its field also means being the wisest, most responsible and certainly the most magnanimous. Give the mountain and the canyon back to the Pala Band of Mission Indians.
RUTH HARBER
Valley Center
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