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Article: Landfill closure postponed 18 months
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- March 8, 2008
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The city's Waimanalo Gulch Landfill received a reprieve from the state Land Use Commission yesterday to stay open for 18 more months.
But the commission ordered the city to provide updates on alternative methods of trash disposal, and several members urged during a two-day hearing that the city not come back for a fourth permit extension.
Mayor Mufi Hannemann said he hopes to use the updates to sell his argument that the landfill needs expansion beyond the new closure deadline in 2009.
"No one who has the facts can fully say we can shut down a landfill in 18 months. There's always going to be a need for a landfill," he ...