North Valley Coalition

	Quick Facts
	On 12/08/99, our L.A. City Council passed the expansion reopening of the Sunshine Canyon Landfill, despite the danger to the air, water, families, and natural resources of all of Los Angeles! This was done despite alternatives such as rail haul to other remote sites, and better recycling programs. The City Council is making money from every ton of trash and poisoning your children, air and water. The facts are as follows:
	1.	Children are in danger, according to the Board of Education City of Los Angeles, BFI's own experts, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the AQMD, and some members of the Los Angeles City Council!
	2.	With this expansion, the Sunshine Canyon Landfill will be the largest dump in the United States, only hundreds of feet from the largest water supplier in the United States, providing water for 17,000,000 people living in Los Angeles and surrounding counties. This is next to the totally open and exposed reservoir which holds our treated drinking water! This dump is within 500 feet of the tunnel that carries all the water from the California Aqueduct to the adjacent water treatment plant.
	3.	The dump will receive up to 17,500 tons of commercial, industrial, and household wastes each day, including sewer products and contaminated soil. Over 80 tons of this daily inflow will be toxic or hazardous.
	4.	There will be 2,600 diesel truck trips per day, delivering trash to the dump from other cities.
	5.	There is no way to mitigate the degradation of the air quality -- this is according to BFI's own experts, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the AQMD, and other agencies.
	6.	The dump is in a seismic-hazard area, located next to an active fault line, in a geologically unstable area. Landslides are a common occurrence. Several earthquakes have been recorded within the dump. This dump is located in an Alquist-Priello Study Zone (Seismic and Earth Movement) There will be continued movement causing tears in the dump liner.
	7.	These impacts cause health impacts, due to the relationship between diesel emissions and cancer, as well as particulate emissions.
	8.	The Los Angeles Unified School Distinct has found those children in the surrounding area to be at risk.
	9.	Winds in the area are clocked up to 100 miles an hour; these winds carry pathogens from the dump into our water supply and spread the dust and filth as far as the wind can carry it.
	10.	Toxic, chemical and human wastes contaminate birds that wander through the trash looking for food. The birds then go back to the open reservoir to drink and float in the water.
	11.	This dump is polluting the groundwater.
	12.	At the 1999 City Council hearing when the dump was voted in, BFI admitted to problems in one of its test wells.
	13.	There is no need for this dump. At the hearing several competitors of BFI came in with estimates less than BFI to haul the trash away to areas that would not be impacted by the refuse or particulate and diesel emissions. This would cost (by the City's own admission) 50 cents per person per month in Los Angeles City. Remember that these are high estimates and that the City is refusing to ask for bids!
	14.	The city is tearing out hundreds of oak trees and destroying streams and wetlands to put in this dump, as well as ruining the habitat for many species of Wildlife.
	15.	The city wants this dump for revenue purposes and franchise fees.
	16.	The city is the responsible agency for investigating the Validity and the safety of the SEIR (Subsequent Environmental Impact Report). The city abdicated this responsibility to consultants hired by BFI, and have never verified the results! BFI are known criminals and polluters!
	17.	The City refuses to enforce the law protecting the welfare and health of the citizens of Los Angeles. Our only recourse is the law and political pressure.



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