For months last year, Chiquita Canyon Landfill officials forewarned of cost increases if the ongoing environmental crisis there forced it to close.
Then on Jan. 1, they abruptly closed the facility.
In the months since, Santa Clarita has been working with Burrtec, its waste-management provider for residential service, to figure out how much more it will cost residents to send their trash to Sun Valley versus Chiquita in Castaic…