Proposed Dump Site Likely to Become Park
Prospects that 453 acres of Towsley Canyon in the western Santa Clarita Valley will become a park rather than a dump have been boosted by acquisition of the land by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, a county official said Thursday.
Don Nellor, head of the solid waste planning division of the Los Angeles County Sanitation District, said it would be “very difficult” to get approval for a landfill in Towsley Canyon if there is a state park next door.
Nellor said, however, that if Towsley Canyon is eliminated as a dump site it increases pressure to put the landfill instead in Elsmere Canyon, just a mile east of Santa Clarita.
The conservancy envisions Towsley Canyon as a key part of the proposed Santa Clarita Woodlands Park, stretching north from the Santa Susana Mountains above Granada Hills into the Santa Clarita Valley.
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