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This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
The Newby Island Landfill (NISL) is one of the largest active landfills on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. It is located in Santa Clara County, California in the United States. The site is located within the city limits of San Jose, California at the western terminus of Dixon Landing Road. The address is 1601 Dixon Landing Road, Milpitas.
This is a list of landfills in the United States. A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment . Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world.
A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...
Puente Hills Landfill was the largest landfill in the United States, rising 500 feet (150 meters) high and covering 700 acres (2.8 km 2). [1] Originally opened in 1957 in a back canyon in the Puente Hills, the landfill was made to meet the demands of urbanization and waste-disposal east of Los Angeles.
The Chiquita Canyon Landfill is a 639-acre landfill (259 ha) in Castaic, California, United States. Located in the Santa Clarita Valley in northwestern Los Angeles County along State Route 126 , it is owned and operated by Waste Connections .
Landfills in California — for solid waste management. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. F. Former landfills in California (9 P)
The Scholl Canyon Landfill is a municipal solid waste disposal facility and landfill located in the central San Rafael Hills, within eastern Glendale in Los Angeles County, southern California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 314 acres (127 ha) of land is located at 3001 Scholl Canyon Road, north of the Ventura Freeway (State Route 134) , east of the Glendale ...