Residents near Calabasas Landfill protested against the dumping of waste from the Palisades fire, fearing environmental hazards. Demonstrators expressed worries about potential toxic materials leaching into groundwater and affecting public health, urging authorities to use more suitable landfills. Federal officials, however, maintain that local landfills are safe and necessary for swift cleanup, emphasizing the need to control hazards on affected properties instead of prolonging the transport process to hazardous waste facilities.
"All the ash and sludge and debris is going to come here - and that's not acceptable to us. And we're not going to wait for a bunch of kids to get sick in 20 years."
"By far the greatest risk to the community is to have uncontrolled hazards on 13,000-plus properties. And our mission is to get it from an uncontrolled environment on these individual parcels to a controlled environment that's safe for that type of material."
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