FOSTER PARK : Lacey Requests More Possible Dump Sites

Ventura County Supervisor Susan K. Lacey has called for a range of alternative sites to be considered along with Weldon and Hammond canyons for a new landfill to handle the trash produced by western county residents.

Lacey has submitted the first supervisor’s response to the county Planning Division’s lengthy study of the controversial Weldon Canyon site near Foster Park. The proposed site is a mile east of California 33 and Canada Larga Road and near the houses of 300 of Lacey’s constituents.

Although she commended planners for the study’s depth, Lacey says it should list possible alternative sites and needs more information on access to the landfill and its effect on air quality.

Lacey asked planners to pinpoint the distance a large dump needs to be from houses to lessen the effect of air pollution on residents. According to the study, the Weldon site would violate allowable federal and state air pollution levels in the area.

But Lacey’s major concern, expressed in a letter to fellow board members Friday, is that other sites closer to the western cities may have been discounted by a 1985 solid waste plan.

Hammond Canyon, four miles east of Weldon, is the only alternative site in the study.