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Nation's largest landfill closing in California
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| 10/31/2013
Posted on 10/31/2013 12:05:12 PM PDT by markomalley
The nation's largest landfill, where 130 million tons of garbage has been dumped, is closing Thursday after more than a half-century of service.
The 630-acre landfill is about 20 miles east of Los Angeles and served as a regional waste facility. Its gates are being shut because a permit for the site, which is nearly filled, expires on Halloween.
The landfill, which opened in 1957, has accepted more than a third of Los Angeles County's trash and stands as high as a 40-story building.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; losangeles
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When I saw this headline, I'd hoped that this meant that they were closing San Francisco or Oakland...but, sadly...
To: markomalley
ROFL! I was thinking the same ting! “Gee, they closed LA!”
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:07:00 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: markomalley
Dammit. I thought it was Sacramento State building.
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:07:01 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: markomalley
Is Barbara Streisand and Cher closing their mouths? Really?
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:07:12 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: markomalley
Hey, Reconquistas.....Come n’ Get It!
To: markomalley
Is Harvey Milk buried there?
To: markomalley
I thought Kalifornia WAS THE WORLD’S LARGEST LANDFILL..................
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:09:28 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
After all the jokes ... is there a plan B ?
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:10:53 PM PDT
by
knarf
(`)
To: markomalley
Wow. Huge dump.
Maybe this 40 story landfill could become the new home for millions of LIV’s and other undesirables like the dumps in India and Brazil.
When the SHTF and the EBT’s quit working - I guarantee these dumps will become valuable real esate for Holder’s people.
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:11:01 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: markomalley
Send the trash here to Indiana.
We’re eventually gonna have some awesome winter skiing once the mountain is high enough!
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:11:08 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
To: markomalley
The photo looks more like Detroit than LA.
Maybe it represents the future of LA. . . .
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:12:06 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: markomalley
Does this mean that the CA State Capital will be shutting it’s doors? No? Damn it!!
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:15:10 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
To: markomalley
I used to drive past this landfill 40 years ago. It was non-stop garbage trucks. It was amazing to watch this mountain rise and realize what was under it. Good luck with the park, guys!
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:15:46 PM PDT
by
D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
To: markomalley
They can’t close it yet. Streisand is still walking around on the streets of Malibu.
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:22:15 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: markomalley
Will the Oakland airport be closing along with the city?
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:23:32 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(No problem is so great that it cannot be made worse by Barack Obama promising to solve it.)
To: markomalley
One can only hope that they have an alternate site already for when this one closes, but then this being California, who knows.
If not, it will be interesting to see what LA does with it’s mountain of trash.
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:29:41 PM PDT
by
CIB-173RDABN
(I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
To: markomalley
50 years from now landfills will be the world’s greatest mines. Mining will be done by robots.
To: Responsibility2nd
Hmmm. Only 0.076 cubic miles, less than a tenth . . .
One man's trash is another man's treasure . . .
(I have some stuff that is both . . . got to get rid of it . . . )
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:36:46 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: markomalley
I thought the nation’s largest landfill WAS California!
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:43:47 PM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: Red Badger
I thought Kalifornia WAS THE WORLD’S LARGEST LANDFILL.................. Why would you think that?
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posted on
10/31/2013 12:49:18 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
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