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Irvine approves one-year extension of county waste agreement after negotiations reduce near-term truck impacts from Bowerman landfill
Summary
The City Council on June 24 voted 7-0 to approve a one-year extension of the county Waste Disposal Agreement that keeps Irvine in the county landfill system while staff and the county negotiate longer-term mitigation. City staff said recent county plans reduce short-term imported tonnage at Bowerman and buy roughly four to six years for ramp and
The Irvine City Council voted unanimously on June 24 to approve a one-year extension to the county Waste Disposal Agreement (WDA), a move city staff said preserves current landfill rates and buys time to pursue a longer-term solution to truck traffic and other local impacts tied to Bowerman Landfill.
City staff briefed the council on a county plan that will lower the amount of out-of-county (imported) daily tonnage arriving at Bowerman from roughly 2,150 tons per day to about 800 tons per day beginning July 1. Staff said that change, together with county rebalancing that shifts some North County deliveries to the Prima Deshecha landfill in San Juan Capistrano, avoids an immediate 40% increase in daily trash-truck trips into Irvine that had been anticipated when the Olinda-Alpha (Brea) landfill is scheduled to reach its regulatory height limit in 2026.
Background and why the extension was proposed: Bowerman is the county’s largest landfill, permitted for up to 11,500…
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