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Article: Opposing sides talk trash over regional landfill. (Eagle Mountail landfill)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 8, 1992
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Vote is near on taking L.A. garbage for next 100 years
Plans for the controversial Eagle Mountain landfill, which if built would be the largest dump on the West Coast and the first of three proposed regional waste-by-rail sites in Southern California, are scheduled for their first public vote this month.
If approved, one-third of the Los Angeles County's refuse could be carried 200 miles away by train and truck to Eagle Mountain, 60 miles northeast of Indio in Riverside County. The landfill would be 2.5 miles long, 1 mile wide and 2,000 feet deep. As proposed, the regional landfill would have enough capacity to serve Southern California's solid waste disposal ...