Toland Road Landfill Gets Council Support
The City Council will send a letter of support for the Toland Road Landfill expansion to the Board of Supervisors today, as county leaders begin public hearings on the much-debated project.
The council voted 7 to 0 to authorize Councilwoman Rosa Lee Measures to sign a two-page letter expressing the city’s support for the project, which would largely increase the capacity of the 161-acre canyon dump near Santa Paula.
“It is a very detailed and dynamic public-policy issue, for which there is no simple answer or single path,” the letter states. “ . . . When looked at from a regional perspective, the Toland project makes good business sense and good environmental sense.”
If approved, the landfill would handle all the west county trash after Bailard Landfill in Oxnard closes this summer. In the next 30 years, the landfill would be filled with 15 million tons of solid waste.
The supervisors will begin public hearings on the proposal at 1:30 p.m. today at the County Government Center.
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