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But here's one of the main reasons you can expect the board to go ahead with selling the dump to Arizona-based Republic Services: The county is out of time to do anything else.
State officials have made it clear that
"We further reiterate that any rejection of the divestiture (sale) premised on the future reopening of the facility by the county would in no way change the requirement that all closure activities must proceed forthwith, including the placement of final cover across the entire facility," wrote Scott Walker, a staff member who overseas landfill closures.
Translation: If the county opts not to sell, it will have to close the landfill (a very costly process) before reopening it (another very costly and bureaucratic process.)
This is not only crazy, it would force the county to continue trucking its garbage as far as Alameda County and Solano County.
So exactly how is this helping the environment - or serving taxpayer interests?
- Paul Gullixson
What do mean it stopped accepting waste? I've been taking my waste there for the last 4 years, and see Green Waste trucks there all the time.
What is the motivation behind CIWMB to force an immediate decision about whether to sell or not???
Will the public just sit back and take rate hikes by a large Arizona Company?
Will the public ask for an appeal if the Board sells the dump?
Isn't it interesting how many big corporate fancy suits come to Sonoma County promising blue skies while taking money from our citizens purses.
Guess they think we are country hicks and they can get away with it by their smooth- spin selling- highly- paid representatives slick talk.
Makes one wonder how they got local officials to vote for their projects? How far does their reach go? Possibly to CIWMB??
Your coments about the environment are interesting based on the plain and simple, proven reason the landfill was closed because it was LEAKING and a threat to ground water!!! This threat will not go away and in fact may be enhanced with the reopening.
Further concern about the environment is not shared at all by Republic...it is documented that they are in the top 500 companies with the WORST environmental record, furthered by the fact that they are the company that killed all the fish in Lake Mead.
How does all that help Sonoma County's environmental record going forward. Not to mention, the County will continue to carry the liablility for the landfill for the next 10 years of the the 20 year contract.
Surely you can't believe that Republic is going to pay for the $100 MM in repairs, etc. "We'll" be paying that bill, guaranteed increased rates for the next 20 years and tax increases for a company that is only accounatable to it's shareholders and not the citizens of Sonoma County.