LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

“Barger says ‘no’ to closing Chiquita Canyon Landfill, lashes out at state legislators”

Minutes after residents protested and filed a lawsuit on Thursday demanding Los Angeles County close the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic due to continual toxic releases into the community that are making residents sick, they got their answer.

Supervisor Kathryn Barger, whose Fifth District includes the landfill and the Santa Clarita Valley, said any kind of closure is out of the question.

In a statement made shortly after the protest began, the same day the legal challenge was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Barger wrote that based on current information about the landfill’s problems, abatement efforts and health risk factors, “the County has not determined that closure of the landfill is currently warranted under the conditions of the County’s CUP (conditional use permit).”