Countywide : Officials to Examine Huge Utah Landfill
Ventura County Supervisor John K. Flynn and Oxnard Councilwoman Dorothy Maron are planning to visit a huge dump in Utah today to see if the county should send its trash there by rail.
Since April, the county has been considering plans to ship area garbage by train to the 2,400-acre landfill in Carbon County, Utah. The rail-haul could become an alternative to building a dump at Weldon Canyon, located in the hills north of Ventura.
The move, some officials said, is being considered to satisfy local environmentalists who strongly oppose turning Weldon Canyon into a landfill.
The Utah dump opened Sept. 21 and could eventually hold 150 million tons of trash.
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