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Board directs staff to fix American Avenue landfill wait times, clarify C&D rules and review fees
Summary
After weeks of complaints about long waits and rejected construction-and-demolition loads, supervisors directed staff to expand signage and public education, ensure safety-vest availability, study an additional scale/lanes and review tipping fees and the city contract; staff will return with cost and operational options.
The Board of Supervisors on March 17 directed county staff to take a set of operational and policy actions after lengthy public and commercial-hauler complaints about long wait times and the treatment of construction and demolition (C&D) loads at the American Avenue landfill.
Public Works and Environmental Health staff described Ordinance 8.25, a county disposal ban intended to divert C&D materials under state diversion rules (AB 939). Staff said exemptions permit small self-hauler loads (up to three cubic yards) or co-mingled loads with less than 20% C&D, but larger commercial rolloffs with higher C&D proportions should…
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