Landfill Operator to Pay City $10 Million
After years of litigation, the city of West Covina and BKK Corp. have finally settled their differences.
BKK, which plans to close its 583-acre landfill in September, agreed to pay $10 million in back taxes to the city for business license fees. The corporation will also pay $750,000 for landscaping on the outside slopes of a nearby BKK hazardous waste site that is already closed, City Manager James E. Starbird said.
The settlement resolves the final elements of a long-running dispute between West Covina and BKK that included a disagreement over how long one of the county’s largest dumps could keep operating.
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