Industry Landfill, Largest In The Nation, To Shut Down

ap ^ | October 31, 2013 11:53 AM

[BenLurkin]

Garbage from the county’s 88 cities eventually will be put on trains to an abandoned gold mine more than 200 miles away.

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It will take a couple of years to clean up the area that could be turned into a park that will connect to existing hiking trails. Giant vacuum tubes also will continue to remove methane gas and send it to a plant that has been converting it into energy for nearly 30 years. The gas will provide enough juice for 70,000 homes for the next two decades, officials said.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Industry Landfill, Largest In The Nation, To Shut Down

DC shutting down again?

[chickenlips]

Landfill NOT septic tank.

[thackney]

POWER GENERATION
http://www.lacsd.org/solidwaste/swpp/energyrecovery/landfillgastoenergy/puentehillsgastoenergy.asp

The Puente Hills Gas-to-Energy facility is a conventional Rankine Cycle Steam Power Plant using landfill gas (LFG) as fuel to generate electricity. LFG is fired in the plant’s boilers producing superheated steam. The superheated steam is used to drive the steam turbine/generator to generate electric power. Currently, the Puente Hills Landfill facility produces approximately 46 MW net of electric power. The power is sold to the local utility company, Southern California Edison.

[Nam Vet]

Used to hunt rabbits, plink and dirt bike ride all the hills just to the ENE of there near the Kellogg Estate. I grew up in Covina/West Covina even when there were NO freeways there, not even the 10. It was beautiful then, smudge pots and all.

Nam Vet

[Coldwater Creek]

We used to live in Rowland Heights. Now in West Tn, Flat as a fritter.

[Coldwater Creek]

I didn’t see about the smidge pots. How well do I remember waking up on col mornings. with black stuff in my nose.

[1010RD]

Obama’s going to raise the cost of living so high everyone will need to be on welfare.