Due to reach capacity in just over a year, county government and state regulators must decide whether to expand Landers’ Landfill or throw it all away. Reporter Mike Lipsitz was at a meeting called last night there to sort it all out…
Fewer than a dozen people turned out to talk trash yesterday. They came for a public information meeting on doubling the dump area at Landers Sanitary Landfill. The meeting was initiated by the Solid Waste Local Enforcement Agency which ensures the correct operation of the landfill and which will have a say in whether or not the landfill is granted a new operating permit. If approved, a state-of-the-art, 48-acre addition would extend to the north and east of the existing dump and would increase its useful life to 2078. If denied, the Landers Sanitary Landfill will cease operations when the current operating permit expires in August 2018. Both the existing 44-acre refuse area and the proposed, combined 92-acre refuse area lay well in the interior of the 638-acre landfill site, making for a large buffer zone. While no decision was made at last night’s meeting, there was a general consensus among attendees that a larger local dump was preferred over no dump at all.
LANDERS DUMP EXPANSION PLAN GETS NO SIGNIFICANT OPPOSITION
