Neighbors worried over plant demolition
In the long history of the Palos Verdes Landfill there have been many controversies. As a school board member in the 1990s, Joan Davidson pressed the district to review what she and others with the local Sierra Club believed could be errant dust of toxic materials wafting into nearby RanchoVistaElementary School. A determination at the time was made that the landfill site, now the area covering ErnieHowlettPark, the SouthCoastBotanic Garden and the Los Angeles County Sanitation District’s gas-to-energy facility, was safe. In 2009, a five-year review also determined the same. “The overall finding was that the site is safe and well maintained,” said Kristen Ruffell, an LACSD division engineer. “There have been a number of questions over the years. There are some people in the community who may never be able to be satisfied with studies and findings.” Before the Peninsula was home to some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the nation, it was home to one of the most toxic waste dumps in the region. Beginning in 1929, a carbon mine was located at the site, and then from 1957 to 1980, the Palos Verdes Landfill accepted class 1 hazardous materials from companies such as Dow Chemical…
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