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Private CANADIAN Company claims to hold a valid commercial lease with the Cortina Band (originally executed in the early 1990's) and wants USA Federal Approval  to locate GIANT  TOXIC LANDFILLS on Cortina Indian Land! 

The landfill footprint is literally within yards of several tribal family residences. Does this compromise the health and safety of the Indian children and their playmates at the rancheria?

Interdepartmental USA Federal approval is required for this plan to go through: 

1.   Department of Interior

2.  Environmental Protection Agency

Canadian-based Company, Earthworks (v.ewk) purports this plan as a "cookie cutter" for other such projects. Is Cortina to be a precedent setting Indian Landfill with main profits going to non-Indians?

Cortina Landfill, as proposed, is to be located at the headwaters of Cortina Creek which empties into the Colusa Basin Drain which empties into the Sacramento River ...

threatens a whole regions water supply!

SLOPE FAILURE

• in an area which experiences years of heavy rainfall intermitten with years of drought

• underlying shattered bedrock and shallow aquifers
• visible large landslide directly below site of landfill show high liquification of area soils
• area prone to California Wildfire-a shared concern others who live in the foothills
• high potential for spillover and wash-outs of retention ponds

Click Video to view surface water travel from rancheria to Sacramento Valley after a normal rainfall event

Is Cortina Landfill Plan----- a...

    "Ticking Time Bomb"?

USEPA admits that

LANDFILL LINERS LEAK

LOCATION

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. 

???

???AND, the liability will ultimately fall to whom???

STAKEHOLDERS

 Colusa County Resolution

Yolo County Resolution

Napa County Resolution

City of Colusa

City of Williams

City of Davis

Farm Bureau

Family Water Alliance

Tehama Colusa Canal

Glenn-Colusa Watershed

Sierra Club

Resource Conservation District

Tuolomne

Congressman Wally Herger

Congressman Thompson

Senator Diane Feinstein

Senator Barbara Boxer