Colusa County Citizens for Safe Water
is a coalition of people who want to protect the
Sacramento River Valley Watershed.
This website strives to provide current, accurate information regarding the current plan to dump megatons of loose garbage
into the Cortina Indian Rancheria steep canyons located at the headwaters of the Cortina Creek which empties into the
Sacramento Valley Basin. The outcome of such a plan could ultimately contaminate an entire regions water supply!
Colusa County Citizens for Safe Water
'Pay Attention or Pay the Price'
P.O. Box 1807
Williams, CA 95987
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CANADIAN Company plans to build TOXIC MEGA-LANDFILL- on Cortina Indian Rancheria in US!!! Earthwork Inc. refers to this as a "cookie cutter" for future profitable landfill projects to be located on US Indian Trustlands!
Off-Reservation impacts created by the Cortina Landfill project 'will ultimately impact an entire region's water supply!' Proposed Cortina Landfill is to be located at the headwaters of Cortina Creek with potential to contaminate both ground and surface water.
Video showing rainwater traveling down into the Sacramento River from Cortina Rancheria after an average winter storm: Click Video
Although landfill plan has promised to be 'functionally equivalent' to California Environmental Protection Agency (CAL/EPA), TheWintun Environmental Protection Agency (WEPA) will have oversite of this project since the developers have not (yet) invited CAL/EPA on board!!!
Cortina Integrated Waste Management, Inc or CIWM,Inc is owned by Canadian Earthworks, Inc. and Cortina Landfill Company, a subsidiary of North Bay Corporation, Ratto Group of Companies.
Cortina Landfill Plan----- a...
"Ticking Time Bomb"?
USEPA admits that
LANDFILL LINERS LEAK
LOCATIONSteep-Sided Canyons susceptible to rainfall-induced landslide due to expansive soils and slope instability
LOCATION
Surface water flows into Cortina Creek, across the valley floor and into the Sacramento River.Groundwater flows Northeast, toward the Sutter Buttes.
LOCATION
Stormwater and Leachate Ponds are to be located at the base of the garbage filled canyons within 200 feet of an active Earthquake fault.
The Cortina Rancheria was established in 1907 by the US Government. The rancheria is located upon the bands ancestral sacred land (first recorded in the 1840's) and is one of the many "postage stamp" sized rancherias. established in California. near the turn of the 20th century.
Presently, there is a proposal 'on the table' for a Canadian based company to lease 2/3 of the Indian's homeland and turn it into a MEGA-LANDFILL! Since the project will be located on Indian Soveriegn Land, apparently it will not require developers to comply with stringent State and Local permitting, monitoring and enforcement regulations... this makes for cheaper dumping and MEGA-PROFITS for the
Non-Indian private landfill company and/or haulers.
For the rancheria residents and you, the citizen, this makes for a high risk to public safety and our environmental health and economic stability. There are unanswered questions regarding who will be held accountable.
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???AND, the liability will ultimately fall to whom???
June 2009
*Arbitrators rule that Landfill Company must pay County what is owed.
*Transmission Power Lines to go through Cortina Rancheria Village? Yes, this is on the drawing board.
May 2009
Awaiting result from Colusa County vs CIWM arbitration
June 2008 CEQA work is begun and permit requests have been filed by Earthworks/North Bay--work is done by county per agreement--
about $110,000.00 + is left unpaid to Colusa County for work completed thus far.(Earthworks Industries, Inc.)
February 2009
Napa Valley Supervisors add in with their resolution
December 21, 2008EPA Slams the brakes on Colusa Landfill
December 12, 2008...
December 1, 2008-Yolo County files a resolution:
'Opposing the Siting of a Solid Waste Landfill in Colusa County by the Cortina Band of Wintun Indians.....more....
12/11/08- Response from WEPA on Appeal of Authority to Construct Approval
12/1/01-Appeal filed -- Petition to Review re: ATC submitted to the Cortina Wintun Environmental Court
11/29/08 - Internet takes an interest in landfill
11/19/08- Outsiders Target Indian Lands for Risky Business
10/29/08-WEPA letter re: Notice of Authority to Construct Permit, for the Cortina Landfill Project and Responses to Comments on the Proposed ATC Permit
10/7/2008 -- Construction Permit Comments are in (See ATC)
9/25/2008--USEPA responds to CCCSW question, 'What is in the hopper?"
"EPA is in the process of reviewing the 2 new site-specific flexibility requests ... The previously submitted SSRFs ... were reviewed by EPA in May and a letter was sent to the project developer requesting additional information ..."
BIA Letter to Colusa County Regarding the Changed Dump Route
Cortina Landfill Project isn't as promised in Original Environmental Studies
July 8, 2008- Landfill Foes Vent to Tribe Leaders
June 2008- legal notice of WEPA review of construction plans for Cortina Landfill submitted by developers
June 2008 Notice of Preparation of California Environmental Quality Act documents regarding County Access Roads necessary for final lease approval
June 2008-Sierra Club, Yolano Flame Newsletter-Cortina Landfill Special Issue
June 2008 NCRA Newsletter Article- Cortina Landfill Project
June 2008-Senator Boxer letter to Asst. Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
June 2008-Colusa County files an appeal to the BIA decision to add a route without consultation to the County or further federally required NEPA supplement. Notice of Appeal.
May 29, 2008-Cortina Landfill Company wants more free road use on the the County Bill
May 2008-Cortina Landfill has both surface and ground water contamination concerns
April 28, 2008-BIA adds garbage trucking routes-using county roads without consulting the county?
May 2008-USEPA Letter Concerning Permitting
May 2008-Congressmen Herger & Thompsen letter to Asst. Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
May 2008-Open Letter to Kesner Flores-WEPA Compliance Officer concerning Permit to Construct Announcement by Canadian Landfill Developer, Earthworks, Inc.
May 13, 2008-WEPA Letter regarding status of site specific flexibility requests for CLF.
May 13, 2008-WEPA Letter regarding Questions on Regulatory Authority
May 3, 2008- Colusa Landfill Review Planned
April 2008-3 Site-Flex Waiver requests received by USEPA
March 2008-Congressman Herger questions status of the Cortina Landfill Project
February 2008-Open Letter to Bryce Howard-North Bay Corporation Project Manager for Cortina Landfill
February 21, 2008- (American) Barn Battle Brewing-Marsh Family Farm is sued by (Canadian) Cortina Landfill developer!
February 18, 2008-Personal letter to WEPA regarding MCP
January 31, 2008-Cortina WEPA Letter regarding Monitoring and Compliance
January 2008-Notice of Time Extention regarding comments to the Monitoring and Compliance Plan
December 2007-Request for Extention for Monitoring and Compliance Comments
November 13, 2007- Recent Earthquake shows Landfill Risk
August 2007- Sierra Club Article in the Colusa Local Paper
August 2007-Colusa County Board of Supervisors Unanimously Approve Resolution Opposing Cortina Landfill Project for the 3rd Time!
June 26, 2007- Landfill Battle Flares Anew
May 30, 2007 - Some Tribes Get the Stinky Slice of Pie
May 2007 - Long Haul:Sonoma County to Dump in Colusa County
April 19, 2007- Contract Ushers Tribal Landfill
March 27, 2007- Stay off the Fence
February 21, 2007- Landfill Facing Hurdles
February 2, 2007- Cortina Landfill OK ed???
January 2007-North Bay plans to Haul Sonoma Garbage to Colusa County
October 31, 2006 - Board drops Lawsuit due to lack of County Money
October 3, 2006- Board resists Landfill Plan
December 18, 2005 - Colusa County Continues Cortina Landfill Challenge
Timeline from Illegal Asbestos dumping in 1988 to 2006.
Colusa County Citizens for Safe Water
'Pay Attention or Pay the Price'
P.O. Box 1807
Williams, CA 95987
United States
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