Simi Valley Landfill Expansion Idea:
Maybe this is all a matter of perspective?
Have
you recently shopped at Costco's, Walmart's or Home Depot? Ever tried to
find one someone in any of these stores? All three of these HUGE stories
sit very close to the landfill - enough that you can put into perspective (from
a ground level view) just how large the landfill already is:
Here's a
close up of the landfill as it is now (May, 2008) at half of its capacity and
before it is doubled, nor increased in height by 15 stories:
Take a
look at the size of the landfill when compared to the new Town Centre Mall and
the Big Sky development... scary huh? And this is BEFORE it is doubled in
size!
In Simi
Valley, we are very proud of being the home of the Ronald Reagan Library
which is also the final resting spot of President Ronald Reagan. As the
'crow flies', the two locations are less than two miles apart, and you can see
the landfill when you're at the Library, which built a gorgeous facility to
house Air Force One!
The Toland
Landfill is situated almost midway between the cities of Fillmore and Santa
Paul (approximate mileage of 10), but also back from where the general
population of both cities live:
Let's look
at how close the Simi Valley Landfill is to our homes - we live less than two
miles 'as the crow flies' or less than three miles by city streets... I'm not a
rocket scientist, but if Waste Management's current site is 298 acres (according
to the CIWMB) and Waste Management bought an additional 2,800 acres, exactly
where is all this expansion going to be?... Think about it...
Keeping it real (always),
Linda
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