MOORPARK : Landfill Demand Directed at Board

Rebuffed by the county planning director, the Moorpark City Council decided this week to bring its demand that no west county trash be dumped at the Simi Valley Landfill directly to the county Board of Supervisors.

In a letter to the county resource management agency last month, the city contended that dumping west county waste at the Simi Valley Landfill was not permitted, since the environmental impact report prepared for the facility presumed that all waste would come from Simi Valley, Moorpark and Thousand Oaks.

The city demanded an immediate halt to the dumping.

County Planning Director Keith A. Turner responded to the city July 29, saying the landfill permit does not specify where the waste can come from but merely regulates the amount that can be dumped there over time.

At the council’s Wednesday meeting, Councilman Scott Montgomery said the city should continue its attempt to halt the carting of west county waste into the east county--and vowed to ask Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks officials to join the city’s fight.

“The Simi Valley Landfill is right now operating outside of its CEQA and environmental approvals,” Montgomery said. “Hopefully, we can get this kind of relief directly from the Board of Supervisors and, in effect, go over the head of the staff member who has already turned us down.”