Thursday, December 07, 2006

 

Down on the dump

By Ross Farrow
The Lodi News-Sentinel

LODI, CALIFORNIA - As you drive east on Harney Lane past Jack Tone Road, you slowly see something that resembles a miniature version of the Egyptian pyramids.

Instead, it's the North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill site, which rises 200 feet above ground level.

As a public hearing before the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors nears, ranchers who live near the North County Landfill site on Harney Lane are a little nervous that the garbage dump could be raised to an even higher elevation than it already is....Read more.