A crowd of South Orange County residents gathered at the Talega Swim & Athletic Club on Thursday, April 30, for a community town hall focused on a proposed increase in operations at the Prima Deshecha Landfill, a plan that could increase the amount of trash processed at the site each day.
The proposal would raise the landfill’s permitted daily capacity from 4,000 tons to 8,000 tons, a change tied in part to the anticipated closure of the Olinda Alpha Landfill in Brea and the redistribution of waste across Orange County. City officials said the proposal does not expand the landfill’s footprint, which has already been approved through prior environmental review, but instead focuses on increasing the intensity of daily operations.
“What we’re talking about today is an expansion of the landfill in terms of its daily capacity for taking in waste,” said Adam Atamian, community development director for the City of San Clemente…