THE SIGNAL

“Chiquita offers tour of work on leachate, gases”

“Two nauseating smells — one likened to rotten milk, another, the acetone in nail polish remover — permeated Chiquita Canyon Landfill on Wednesday during an invite-only media tour of the now-shuttered facility, as Waste Connections, which owns the site, touted its progress there. 

John Perkey, vice president and deputy legal counsel for Waste Connections, disputed the findings of state and federal regulators regarding the growth of the reaction area while convening a gaggle of reporters in an area he described as the reaction site. ”