The Riverside County Department of Environmental Health said there have been no issues since Corona-based El Sobrante Landfill began taking in millions of pounds of rotten food from a Boyle Heights warehouse that caught fire in June.
“The waste that they’re bringing in is not hazardous — it is food waste — so that’s something that is assessed at the site before it’s even transported,” Sandi Salas, a spokesperson for the department, said. “As far as smells and odors, we have not had any smells or odors that we are aware of that the community has been raising concern over.”
Waste Management, which operates the landfill, requested a waiver to allow the company to exceed its daily limit of 16,054 tons of waste, its weekly limit of 70,000 tons of waste and its vehicle limits set by the county. That request was made after Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in response to the Lineage Logistics cold-storage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights…