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Sunshine Canyon Landfill – City/County Joint TAC Meeting – Dec. 7th

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Here is the agenda for the upcoming City/County Joint TAC Meeting to be held at City Hall, 5th floor Rotunda – Room 525. Relevant reports can be viewed on the City Planning’s website.  The City/County Mitigation Monitoring Report may not be available on the website.

This is the SCL-TAC agenda and Mitigation Monitoring Report which is well worth reading as it gives us an additional set of eyes on BFI compliance from a consultant retained by the City & County covering a range of subjects from on-site maintenance to revegetation.

SCL-CAC’s Wayde Hunter on LA Talk Radio

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Wayde Hunter was on LA Talk Radio with our own Edward Headington in the early afternoon today talking about the Sunshine Canyon Landfill.
If you take this link and then click on start button in the box on the upper left (Original Show Date November 3) it will start the session.  Note that this is the start of the show at 00.00 but if you click on the bar you will be able to move the pointer along to the start of the conversation/interview which is at 29:30.

SCL-LEA Meeting, November 1, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. Downtown

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MEETING NOTICE
SUNSHINE CANYON LANDFILL LOCAL ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
November 1, 2011
3:30 PM
ROOM 1070 (TENTH FLOOR), LOS ANGELES CITY HALL
200 NORTH SPRING STREET LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

Note – Board Member Bambard may be participating by teleconference from a remote location. Board Member Bambard’s participation will not count towards a quorum. This meeting is noticed and publicly accessible at the location below:
REMOTE MEETING LOCATION
AECOM, Jordan
Shabab Al Ordon Club Building, First Floor
Balbaak Street No. 4
Amman 11814, Jordan
LOCATION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY: The Sunshine Canyon Landfill is located at 14747 San Fernando Road in the Granada Hills area of the City of Los Angeles and an area of unincorporated Los Angeles County.
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Note: Additional information concerning this matter may be obtained by telephoning Mr. David Thompson at (213) 252-3348. Copies of the draft Sunshine Canyon Landfill Local Enforcement Agency Designation Information Package including the SCL-LEA Enforcement Program Plan and SCL-LEA Joint Powers Authority Agreement are available on the Sunshine Canyon Landfill Local Enforcement Agency website at: https://scllea.org
Subject

  1. Call to Order/Welcome
  2. Approval of the minutes from the June 2, 2011 Board meeting
  3. Program Manager’s report
  4. Financial Manager’s report
  5. Report and recommendations for Board action on the status of the E. Tseng and Associates consulting contract and the SCL LEA Evergreen Fund.
  6. Report and recommendations for Board action of a revised Joint Powers Authority Agreement between the City of Los Angeles and the County Los Angeles for the Sunshine Canyon Landfill Local Enforcement Agency.
  7. Report and recommendations for Board action regarding the reimbursement billing methodology for the SCL LEA for staff costs including overtime.
  8. Verbal report on nuisance odor activities of the SCL LEA and other agencies and recommendation for general support of SCAQMD Stipulated Petition to Amend Order for Abatement.
  9. Consideration of recommendations for Board action including adoption of a SCL LEA Conflict of Interest Program, supporting policies and designation of parties in compliance with the California Fair Political Practices Act.
  10. Comments from the public
  11. Close of meeting/adjourn

 

Speaker cards will be available at the meeting. Each person wishing to address the Board of Directors is asked to complete the form and submit to the clerk at the beginning of the meeting. Speakers will be given three minutes each.

August 30, 2011 – Sunshine Canyon gets odor warning (Daily News)

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https://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_18792888

A state agency has filed a notice of intent to cite the operators of Sunshine Canyon Landfill for violating the minimum standard for odor control.

The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery issued the notice late last week after reviewing Sunshine Canyon inspection reports for June and July.

Inspections were conducted by a local enforcement agency composed of city and county officials, who did not return telephone calls Tuesday.

The CalRecycle notice warns Republic Services, operators of Sunshine Canyon, to correct the issue within 90 days to avoid the citation.

Republic spokeswoman Peg Mulloy said the odor problem could be coming from the gas-extraction system, which collects landfill gas and burns it off to prevent it from being released into the air.

“We hired an outside firm to repair or replace gas wells,” Mulloy said. “If we didn’t do this project, there would be deterioration. We expect that to be done in October.”

The number of complaints about foul smells from the landfill jumped more than tenfold in the last few years, according to state officials.

More than 600 complaints were registered in 2010, compared to fewer than 50 in 2008.

Sunshine Canyon Landfill is one of the nation’s largest integrated waste management facilities, taking in 9,500 tons of trash daily. It is actually two adjacent landfills – one on city land, one in county jurisdiction – that merged operations in 2009.

“We understand it’s a problem and we don’t want it to be,” Mulloy said of the odor issues. “We are looking at every possible cause and then we are taking every possible action to reduce and eliminate the odors.”

Mulloy said the company discontinued taking waste from one customer that was considered a potential source of the odor. She also said the city/county permit required Sunshine Canyon to cover one of the side slopes with green waste, which may also have caused the odor.

“We stopped that practice because of the odors generated,” Mulloy said.

Meanwhile, a Sunshine Canyon Landfill-Community Advisory Committee meeting will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Knollwood Country Club, 12024 Balboa Boulevard, Granada Hills. The meeting will include officials from Sunshine, who will discuss how the odors are being mitigated.