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El Sobrante Landfill is a Class 3 regional disposal facility permitted to accept up to 10,000 tons per day, seven days per week. It employs approximately 40 full-time employees. Landfill operations are overseen by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health.
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This will be our 12th year sponsoring Caltrans’ Adopt-A-Highway program. We have been responsible for six miles of the I-15 freeway, starting on the southbound side at Ontario Avenue and ending right before the Temescal Canyon Road exit and starting on the northbound side at Temescal Canyon road, and ending right before Cajalco Avenue.
In June 2007, we terminated our contract with the Adopt-A-Highway contractor responsible for our portion of the freeway and took on the litter clean-up task ourselves. We created our own clean-up crew of eight workers and started to pick up litter on our adopted miles twice a month. In January we increased the budget for this project and our litter crew has since been cleaning the freeway on a weekly basis. Since then we have picked up in excess of 1600 bags of trash and committed more than 1200 hours of manual labor to this task. This has resulted in a noticeable improvement along the miles we have adopted.
Other significant efforts also are devoted to keeping the area near the landfill clean. For example, every week, a litter patrol cleans Temescal Canyon Road from the I-15 freeway underpass and continuing to Weirick Road. Our litter patrol also cleans the area around Dawson Canyon Road leading to the landfill.
We want to do our part in keeping our neighborhood — as well as the landfill perimeter — litter-free. If you have any feedback or concerns about our litter management program, please contact Lily Quiroa.
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