Water cops reject Pendleton landfill plan
By Gig Conaughton
The North County Times
SAN DIEGO, CA - San Diego County's water cops tersely rejected a proposal by Camp Pendleton this week that proposed to fix the base's leaky Las Pulgas landfill by pulling a new $5.5 million liner over the top of the trash that already sits on the $2.3 million landfill's existing, torn liner.
San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board officials said the proposed cleanup "action plan" would put an umbrella over the leaky liner, and prevent rainfall from falling through the landfill to its lowest levels.
But they said it would do nothing to prevent the existing polluted leachate from thousands of gallons of hazardous waste from continuing to leak through the lower liner into groundwater supplies nearby, or to prevent additional trash from increasing the weight and continuing to tear holes in the existing liner....Read more.
The North County Times
SAN DIEGO, CA - San Diego County's water cops tersely rejected a proposal by Camp Pendleton this week that proposed to fix the base's leaky Las Pulgas landfill by pulling a new $5.5 million liner over the top of the trash that already sits on the $2.3 million landfill's existing, torn liner.
San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board officials said the proposed cleanup "action plan" would put an umbrella over the leaky liner, and prevent rainfall from falling through the landfill to its lowest levels.
But they said it would do nothing to prevent the existing polluted leachate from thousands of gallons of hazardous waste from continuing to leak through the lower liner into groundwater supplies nearby, or to prevent additional trash from increasing the weight and continuing to tear holes in the existing liner....Read more.
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