More than a dozen Val Verde and Castaic residents and community leaders came together on Tuesday, Dec. 17, to decry the “inaction and lack of concern” of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors around the public health emergency in the “diverse” community around the Chiquita Canyon Landfill operated by Waste Connections.
Residents claimed there is a “double standard in effect where the Board of Supervisors have called for a state of emergency for wealthy, heavily white communities, like Porter Ranch/Aliso Canyon, but not Chiquita Canyon.”
The community members protested at the Board of Supervisors meeting held at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration on Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles…