POVERTY CANYON : State Awards Grant to Clean Up Old Landfill
A state agency has awarded a $350,000 grant to clean up an old landfill north of Ventura and repair its drainage system damaged in heavy rains last winter, officials said Wednesday.
The Integrated Waste Management Board directed that the money be used to clean up the Otto Hopkins Landfill in Poverty Canyon. The eight-acre dump operated from 1962 to 1967.
Heavy rains over the winter washed away the landfill’s topsoil, sending 500 tons of waste into a nearby creek, officials said.
The cleanup operation, expected to take two weeks to complete, will restore the dump’s topsoil and repair the landfill’s drainage system to prevent future erosion.
“This money comes none too soon and will be used to clean up this critical environmental threat,” state Sen. Jack O’Connell (D-Carpinteria), whose district includes the dump site, said in a prepared statement.
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