LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A landfill site in California is the target of a proposed $17 million settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the government announced.
The EPA announced it was proposing a $17 million settlement with 275 parties tied to a 190-acre landfill about 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
The site was used as a landfill for about 40 years before EPA placed the facility on its Superfund priority list in 1986. The site accepted commercial, residential and industrial waste from 1948-84.
Each of the parties named by the EPA stands accused of sending collectively as much as 110,000 gallons of hazardous waste to the site during its life span.
"Today, landfills that accept hazardous waste must meet very strict design requirements," said Jared Blumenfield, a regional EPA administrator, in a statement. "This was not the case with (the Operating Industries, Inc., Superfund site) where hazardous materials were released into the environment."
The EPA began to monitor operations at the landfill as early as the 1980s.
