A group of residents near the cathi filed a lawsuit on Thursday, 23 February, demanding that the Los Angeles County permanent the chikita canian landfills shut down due to a continuous release of toxic odors for about a year that is making them sick.
The mandate filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Los Angeles city claims that the county is not following the environmental laws of the state and the landfill is violating the conditions of the permit of the landfill given by the County Department of the Regional Plan. The latest conditional use permit was honored on 25 July 2017 and authorized municipal waste landfill to expand and operate for another 30 years.
A truck dumps garbage over a chicka canon landfill in cathi. (Photo courtesy of Los Angeles County Public Works).
The plaintiff, citizens to close the chique cannon, represent most residents of the small, semi-rural community of Val Vardy of about 5,000. The residents of Val Varde, as well as caustic, live oak and haasle canian-Santa Clareita Valley have described asthma attacks near the landfill of 639 acres in the Clarita Valley, including the south coast air quality management district, including asthma attacks, bloody nose, skin irritation, nausea, nausea and heartbeat officers.
CIQUITA CANYON officials on Thursday did not immediately respond to the messages seeking comments for the story.
On Thursday, the US Environmental Protection Agency ordered Landfil to fix the problem of Odors and avoid escaping from landfill to communities. The EPA said in a statement that unilateral administrative order or UAO is made when the EPA finds a feature “can be an adjacent and adequate threat to public health or environment.”
Many residents say that the Nokius smells are so strong that they are forced inside the house and prevent them from enjoying an outdoor courtyard or backyard.
At a live oak elementary school, located about a mile from Landfil, the parents of the children were given the option to keep their children inside during the holiday, according to the OSE OROKID, a lawyer of the Law firm Sethi Orchid Minor in Pasadena, who helped write a legal complaint.
“We are telling La County that they need to shut down this landfill,” said Orchids. “They are creating a risk for public health.”
All from 2023 and January 2024, Landfil received around 7,000 smells and health complaints. Landfil operators, Chikita Canian LLC received about 100 notices of violations. SCAQMD scientists confirmed that a sub -constituent chemical reaction that started in May 2022 is causing the release of demethel sulfide (DMS) at a high level from producing highly high temperatures, which is one of the chemicals in the smell and causes complaints.
At the AQMD hearing in September and January, the landfill operators stated that they would follow the conditions required by the agency to establish more extraordinary wells, which would remove additional materials and reduce the gaseous odor. Operators also established an additional flare to burn more gases and recently agreed to install community monitors in and around landfills. Landfils were allowed to be operated as per an agreement signed with AQMD last month.
However, the residents’ trial says the smell has not decreased and the county permit should be canceled as the landfill is causing a public disturbance and public health threats. The legal complaint cited other examples of recent violations.
The toxins and substances control department found lying, a liquid produced by waste decomposing, pooling on landfill and running on the landfill ground on December 12, 2023, was said to be in the case. A month before that, DTSC inspectors according to the case “visited the ie, boiling from the landfill.”
Chikita Canyon Landfil in Caustic on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
On December 27, 2023, Landfil sent 4,600 gallon waste water pumped from Landfil to Redford Alexander Corp, known as Evelyon in Gardena for treatment. Wastewater is usually treated in this company, then sent to sewer for disposal. However, Landfil identified it as a specimen made by non-ecosy waste and avoidal, DTSC and Los Angeles County Fire Department, high levels of benzene, above the poisoning level for chemicals, called a carcinogen by the American Environmental Protection Agency, thus makes the lecthet a dangerous hell.
The DTSC stated that the landfill operator “failed to determine a proper waste” and quoted them for a violation of class 1. Avalon is not equipped for the treatment of dangerous waste.
On October 3, 2023, Lichet Seepage was found in an inspection by Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. This may mean that toxic liquid can reach ground water, a source of drinking water. According to the trial, the leachet seepage was not previously informed as Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, AQMD, or County as required.
Another reason for cancellation of operating permit is environmental injustice, it has been said in the complaint. Because the smell of landfill is the strongest in the closest community of Val Varde, a place where most of the people of color, representing the violation of environmental justice laws, are accused of complaint.
As a remedy, a legal complaint suggests that the mescite regional landfill in the county desert sends garbage by rail, which is east of glamis.
Supervisor Catherine Bargar has asked the operators of Landfil to provide rehabilitation assistance services for those living near Landfil.
In a letter sent to an executive of Landfil, he requested that he took immediate steps to address the impacts on the members of the community living near Landfil.
Landfil operators stated that they are setting up a community profit and rehabilitation programs, but it would take six weeks to six weeks before it is implemented.
“We are at an important crossroads. Although we have many organizations involved in federal, state and county government levels, it has become rapidly clear to me that there is no forecast in sight, ”Baragar John M. Perki is written in a letter addressed to the waste connection to the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, which is the owner of Chikita landfill and headquarters in Woodlands, Texas.
“As you continue to work to follow the requirements of the oversight and smell, very real and important effects should be addressed for those living near Landfil.”
The district of Burgar consists of communities near Santa Clarita Valley and Landfil.
Additionally, the letter requests to contribute more funds in the utility relief program, which he started to help the residents pay utility bills, and to support a program to help the owners of the house to help the owners of the landfill.
City News Service contributed to this report