County Should Quit Wasting Time and Solve Landfill Crisis

Could someone help me out here? I’ve been reading about Anaheim Disposal’s decision not to use the Orange County Olinda Landfill and their subsequent decision to use it again after all.

What gives? I’ve only heard (and repeatedly) that Orange County is rapidly running out of areas suitable for landfill. Not only that, but the county’s lack of landfills is presented to us, the citizens of Orange County, as a major crisis that will affect our “quality of life” if we don’t make one change or another in our lives, and immediately!

Now we find out that the whole thing was a joke and that we really aren’t worried about the filling of the landfills. I guess money is the real issue here?

The whole thing kind of reminds me of other problems we have here. For example, how is it that some of our roads are seriously overcrowded and we face a “catastrophic water shortage” (as a result of the drought--”let’s all conserve”), but we can allow homes to be built for several hundred thousand more people who will drive on these roads and drink the already scarce water?

Will somebody tell me what we are supposed to believe?

JAN J. MILLER

Orange