AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - September 20, 2012 Inside with Slight Chance of RainWeekend Brings Warm Weather, Ends This Issue Calendar...............................3 Classifieds ...........................3 Community Briefs ..............3 by Cristian Vasquez. Days provide a low-cost way to give fishing a try. For more information on Free Fishing Days, please visit www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/fishing/freefishdays.html. Alondra Park Lake in Lawndale. Photo when fishing licenses are not required. All other fishing regulations, such as bag and size limits, gear restrictions, report card requirements, fishing hours and stream closures remain in effect. Free Fishing Food ......................................7 100The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) encourages anglers to go fishing with a friend or neighbor who doesn’t have a license this Saturday, the second of two days in 2012 Los Angeles County Library System Turns Legals .........................5, 9-11 Police Reports....................2 Seen here is Alondra Park an 84-acre park, which includes a fishing lake along with two golf courses. For park information, persons interested may call 310-217-8366. Photo courtesy of Crystal Perez. Council Hears Report on Solid Waste Sports ...................................4 Management; Permits May Cost Millions By Nancy Peters from 2010. This may result in an administrative peti- This time Mayor Pro Tem Larry Rudolph The transformation of solid waste being tion being filed to contest the new controls was in charge of the gavel as Mayor Harold processed to energy beginning in 2004 has in the permit process, although it could be Hofmann was away on a vacation. helped the City meet and exceed the diver- a costly proposition as well for the cities. The agenda contained only a few consent sion rates. With low emissions from trucks Petitioning the court to put a hold on the calendar items for voting approval and these from CDS, less trucks on the streets since enactment of the new permit controls and elicited questions from Councilmember Pat the CDS scheduling is more efficient, and targets for six months will still impose $2,500 Kearney, who wondered if the Planning Com- diversion is based on volume rates from at a minimum for Lawndale’s share in the mission is subject to the same Conflict of residential collection, the management of overall cost of the petition filing. Interest Code as the City Council. However, the solid waste is now an asset for the City. The measurements should remain in the the Planning Commission and all the sitting A report was offered by Ray Tahir from piping systems and that outfall so that each commission and committee members are TECS, an environmental compliance firm city has a truer measurement of its compliance appointed--not elected--and are not included that manages city compliance with national with the target TDMLs. Best Management in the code, although all City employees are. pollution discharge and elimination systems Practices (BMPs), the way that monitoring Weekend incurred by the City, a question arose as county and more specific regional boards. since the laws were enacted in 1972. Theand compliance is currently reported, hasworked previously for the permit periods-regulations imposed by the federal government that then trickles down to the state,Also, in the warrants presented for approvalof payment for various and sundry expenses Forecast Redevelopment Agency project. Otis Ginoza, tional regulations and this new compliance is is not curbed from imposing its stringent,BMPs will be suspended if the TDMLsare not sidetracked and the Regional Board-Unfortunately, Tahir reported there is a newregulation that is more stringent than the nato how any work on renovating the HoganPark lot could be included since it was a Assistant City Manager, explained that the from the Los Angeles Regional Board based impossible-to-comply-with controls. new Assembly Bill 1484 may allow for the on the total maximum daily loads (TDMLs) Local legislators are being asked to in- Redevelopment Bond proceeds to be utilized of storm water outfall, governing toxics in the tercede for the 85 municipalities that will Friday by cities that complied with the law and have Dominguez Channel. This channel is used for be forced to participate in the LA Regional Sunny having access to complete projects that cities and there is now a target that must be Angeles Flood Control District permit willBoard permit unless the County of Losdischarge accumulation from many differentbeen certified for that compliance--thereby 85˚/69˚ were already under contract when the State met that is impossible to control with all the be allowed to include them and bypass the of California dissolved the Redevelopment water mixing into the channel--that being the Regional Board permit. The BMPs will Agency in 2011. The new bill (1484) has location of the measurements for the target continue to apply until the adoption of the been written in such a way that the projects rather than a controlled discharge outfall new permit process by the National Pollut- put on hold by the dissolution will be able pipe as currently exists for each municipality. ant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Saturday to restart and then be completed, so work This strict compliance not being met could program issues have been resolved. A public is continuing to ready the park relocation cost cities in the area of $10 billion over hearing is scheduled by the LA Regional Sunny of utilities, causing a warrant for payment. a 10-year period to clean up the TDMLs Board on October 5, 2012 and then the 86˚/68˚ A presentation by Debbie Morris, Project and could impose on Lawndale as much as petitioning will need to be filed within 30 Manager for Lawndale at HF&H Consultants, $500,000 per square mile per year over a 20- days by the municipalities that want to move updated the Council on the solid waste year period. The TDML targets are measured to the County Flood Control District. TECS management accomplished in the last year. by the Regional Board even during the rainy and Tahir will work to file the petitions and The 1995 25 percent requirement of solid season, while the federal measurements are keep costs per city down by filing as a group Sunday 8939, was not originally met. Increasing the fairer way to measure toxics in the storm and sharing the costs.A favorable court decision is needed todone during dry weather, which is a muchwaste diversion, as enacted by Assembly Bill Sunny diversion rate steadily over the years, with the water channels. The infiltration basins created avoid the stringent controls and the inclusion 81˚/65˚ (CDS) becoming Lawndale’s exclusive trash are not being considered by the LA Regional ultimately will cost the cities in fines if thein the LA Regional Board permit whichto avoid overall accumulative measurementsassistance of Consolidated Disposal Service hauling vendor in 2003 for both residential Board, as the local arm of the California storm water discharges are considered to and business waste, the 2011 diversion Regional Water Quality Control Board, by be contributing to water quality standards rate is at 59 percent--a 30 percent increase the new permit stringency controls. not being met.
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