" This is far from a done deal but the PR people wanna cram it down our throats to make us believe it's done. If Imperial County doesn't want it, then Imperial County has to stand up to Los Angeles Sanitation. LA is gonna keep changing the plan until IC says "enough already"-like legislators change bills in committee. The end result...an unrecognizable elephant gift that we have to live with for a real long time. "

" I forgot to mention- We need to tell the county not to allow improvements to Ted Kipf. Period. End of discussion!! "

" Catussam- You are correct. I don't know why this newspaper keeps reporting that the MRL will dump trash into the old pits. I think that if the reporter would do some homework by calling MRL or reading the EIR/EIS, he would find out that this landfill will create new mounds(hills if you will) of trash in the open desert West of the mining operation and east of the railroad tracks. The landfill and the mine don't have anything to do with each other. The mine sold off the landfill portion a long time ago. "

" Another aspect of the plan has also been changed since first talks. The trash will no longer dumped into the pits from which gold was extracted. Instead it will be dumped further to the west against the mountain and the tailings from the mine used to cover it. From vantage points at the top of the dunes we will no longer see natural landscape, but tailings piles jutting from the mountains, similar to what we now see from the road further East. Our county gas tax money is already stretched too thin to maintain or pay to improve our road system for another county's benefit. "

" Ted Kipf Road is already heavily traveled by off-roaders from Riverside County that use it as a shortcut. No way these garbage trucks can mix with the off-roaders on this County road; even with widening and paving.
Time the Supervisors stop bending over backwards in thier GREED for money and hold LA Sanitation to the original Rail plan. If have be I-8 to Olgiby Road would be most practical for gargage trucks "

" Ted Kipf road is a narrow, dirt road that often washes out in spots when it rains. It would be hazardous, if not impossible on a majority of the road, for two 18 wheelers to pass each other safely.

The county would be better off leaving the traffic on the state highways, which are built to handle and withstand truck traffic being maintained by CalTrans, than diverting them onto a dirt road that's maintained by the county. "

" I cant believe they passed this, this is BS. "

" 4000 tons of trash a day equates to 160 truck loads, one every 9 minutes, 24 hrs. a day seven days a week. With return trips a truck will pass a given point every 4.5 minutes. The article errs in that the ramp up period will go on for posibly 20 years. The gold fields pit will not be where the trash will go but into the area west of the mountains and near the rail line and Kif Road. 1.3 million people visit the dunes a year and traffic is already a major problem. Ten years or more have passed to deal with the railroad and I suggest L A better put on the pressure go back to the original plan. "