Public Health Directs Chiquita to Reinstate Relief Program

Public Health directs Chiquita to reinstate relief program

Less than three months after the Chiquita Canyon Landfill’s relief assistance program was ended, the L.A. County Department of Public Health on Tuesday sent a letter to the landfill’s operators directing that the program be reinstated.  In the letter addressed to John Perkey, Waste Connections vice president and legal counsel, and Steve Cassulo, general manager of the Chiquita landfill, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer wrote that the landfi…

County backs bills to compensate residents for Chiquita Landfill

LOS ANGELES — The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday threw its support behind two state Assembly bills aimed at providing financial relief to residents impacted by the troubled Chiquita Canyon Landfill.