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HomeMy WebLinkAbout418256 ORDINANCE NO. 418 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE ADDING NEW SECTIONS 8.24.291 AND 8.24.292 TO THE IRWINDALE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE OPERATION OF LANDFILL OPERATIONS WITHIN THE CITY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. New Sections 8.24.291 and 8.24.292 reading as follows are hereby added to the Irwindale Municipal Code: 8.24.291 Depth of fill. In order to protect underground water supplies and aquifers, no person shall place, or permit to be placed, any disposal of waste (except class 3 materials) in any area less than 100 feet above high water table elevation as determined by USGS survey. 8.24.292 Use of fill. No person shall use any landfill operation or otherwise dispose of waste (except class 3 materials) when said material is brought from an area more than ten (10) miles distant from the disposal site. This section is enacted in order to provide a continuing capacity for landfill operations in this immediate area and to discourage inputting of such material from elsewhere. SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall become effective immediately as an emergency ordinance for the following reasons: 1. The City Council finds that landfill operations in the vicinity have in the past and threaten again to cause water pollution by reason of leachate; 2. That a buffer of 100 feet above high water table elevation will reasonably protect against leachate, and should any landfill operation have a capacity at a depth lower than said 100 feet buffer, they will be compelled to first refill such capacity with clean dirt; 3. The current crises in landfill operations threatens this area with a capacity of landfill operations unless the waste streams for such facilities is curtailed in a manner that requires each area of Los Angeles County to share the problems inherent in such operations, so that one area is not unduly burdened. SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published according to law. APPROVED and ADOPTED this 30th day of July 1987. �- Arthut a, M ATTEST: Deputy City Clerk I hereby certify has the foregoing urgency ordinance, being Ordinance No. 41 as introduced as an urgency ordinance at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Ordinance No. 418 Page 2 Irwindale, held on the 30th day of July, 1987, was duly passed, approved and adopted by said Council, approved and signed by the Mayor and attested by the Deputy City Clerk by the following vote of the Council: AYES: Councilmen: J. Breceda, P. Miranda, J. Castellanos, and Mayor A. Tapia NOES: Councilmen: None ABSTAIN: Councilmen: R. Diaz ABSENT: Councilmen: None Deputy City Clerk 25?