New violations at Chiquita Canyon Landfill fuel a fear of leachate reaching Santa Clara Valley drinking water sources.
The Chiquita Canyon Landfill, just west of the city of Santa Clarita on Thursday, March 21,2024. The troubled Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic received a new violation last week from a state water agency for pumping untreated leachate water from the landfill into local waterways that empty into the Santa Clara River.
Orchid said the landfill is producing up to 200,000 gallons of leachate a day that has been pumped into waterways or kept in storage tanks onsite. State regulatory authorities concluded the leachate is the result of a very hot smoldering event caused by an out-of-control reaction in an older, inactive section of the landfill.
According to the violation notice, the operators were caught by a citizens’ group on several occasions pumping out the leachate and unloading leachate from a truck into the waterways, which led to the waste reaching the river. Chiquita Canyon Landfill officials, and Steve Cassulo, the landfill manager who was one of three officials with the landfill to receive the regional water board’s notice of violation , also did not respond to emailed questions from this newspaper on Monday.
A second complaint was sent on March 12 saying the “Chiquita Canyon Landfill has been discharging leachate ponds into the local waterway.” The water board staff notified Cassulo on March 11 and March 13 telling the landfill officials to stop the practice and to remove the pumping equipment that was mounted atop the south detention basin spillway at the landfill.
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