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You’ve made some good points. Frightening ones, too, but very important.
Good morning Darryl,
Happy to see you have not forgotten us. Here are a few tips about that plastic liner you are talking about. The one we have been told will never fail.
This link shows photos of Chiquita’s liner after the earthquake.
http://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/kavazanjian/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Indispensable-Role-of-Case-Histories.pdf
It does not take a scientist to see that is torn, and we live in a known earthquake region – it will happen again. Heck, USGS warns us we are overdue.
Google key words like – 1994 Earthquake Liner Chiquita Canyon Landfill
Plenty of fun articles about how it did fail. My question is, what did they do about the liner already buried that they could not see if it failed or not?
I think you have a good point that we may be eating our landfill in our strawberries along the 126 …
Thanks for continuing to highlight this issue and raise important questions that absolutely need answers.
Thank you! Finally someone is hearing us.
Member of the VVCA
Val Verde Community Association.
Great points. The VVCAC should change its name.
When you are interviewed as a candidate
to be part of this committee , you are told
by a county official what you can and can
not say. Hardly an advisory committee.
How can you be appointed to advise a
community you don’t live in.So far this
board has used their money to pay for
their dinners at the a Embassy Suites.Oh
ya, they purchase magnets for our
refrigerators that remind us when free dump
day is. Members of this board should be
elected by the residents, not hand picked
by someone from Antonoviche’s office.
Woooowsers… If you’ve listened to the landfill presentation at least twice, you would know that they are regulated and monitored by more than 2 dozen local/state/federal agencies and that there are more than 3 dozen groundwater monitoring wells around the landfill to ensure there aren’t all these “problems” you make wild assumptions about. Your “opinions” belong in the fiction section.
To SCVdad33 – We’ve received complaints. In the future, please disclose your name in compliance with the posted rules for this forum.
Please look at the photographs of the torn liner. Respectfully, there are no wild assumptions there.
Everyone should have the right to their opinion and being polite is important for the healthy exchange of ideas as well as facts.
Darryl, I thought you were required to identify yourself on this comment section? I was and yet SCVdad33 is not identified.
Val Verde does not have even a tiny percent of the equipment looking after our neighboring landfill – Sunshine Canyon. A simple question – why are Val Verde residents (directly) and the entire population of the Santa Clarita Valley not important enough to have this kind of protection? I ask this question to be considered respectfully.
Thank you.
SCVdad33… send us a source on your findings please. I’ve seen a few red flags in what I’ve read on how long it has been since it was monitored. You may however have a better source which is why I’m asking you to share where you are getting your information. Not challenging it, just want to see it too. :)
If you read all the things that Chiquita Canyon does everyday to avoid smells, you will think, “Wow they are really trying.” But, after looking at other landfills and you will find they do the bare minimum. After talking to the AQMD and you will really know how little they do. They are the last landfill that use fans and misters that run on gas. They have to be filled every four hours. The problem is that everyone leaves the landfill at nights. So Val Verde gets in-dated with stench. The president of the Santa Clarita Town Cancel calls them good neighbors, but when Chiquita Canyon was asked why they do not have electric fans, their reply was, “That would cost us a fortune.”
I personally, as a good neighbor, make sure my trash smells to not drift into my neighbors yard.
Vanessa,
Instead of worrying about spelling, we would like you to look into the torn liner issue, sludge, auto shred testing, odor complaints and what is in the leachate. If it’s in the leachate, that means they took in something they shouldn’t have?
Can you focus on these issues, which is your job as the VVCAC President.
Thank you.
Greg
For the record, I have send the VVCAC a number of requests to look into complaints I’ve received from residents of Val Verde and some of my own concerns.
The CATC meeting has no relevance to the official duties of the VVCAC, that being the liaison between the community, the landfill and the LA Dept of Regional Planning.
No game here, I am speaking up for the residents of Val Verde, who have concerns and directing these concerns to the responsible organization.