The City Garbage site has no direct access to rail service, so transportation remains a drawback that makes the site more expensive, he added. The plan is to ship waste by rail. The waste authority needs to have a new transfer station in place by November 2000, when the city of Arcata stops handling the trash at the temporary Arcata transfer station. The purchase of the Hawthorne Street site also includes City Garbage's landfill on Cummings Road since the company would have no further use for it. Construction is due to begin next spring, Kindsfather said, adding plans like tree-planting to spruce up the area.
Final agreement is contingent upon the environmental review within the next three months.
The pact, due July 14, also depends on the blessing of both boards of the two entities with their respective attorneys and City Garbage receiving extensions on its current collection contracts until the year 2010 with the city of Eureka and the county. 350 animal shelters across California are supposed to extend the impound period time before a dog or cat is euthanized from three to six days, according to a new law sponsored by state Sen. Tom Hayden, D-Santa Monica. At press time, a measure to delay implementation of the new law by one year was pending. The closely watched bill by Assemblywoman Elaine Alquist, D-Santa Clara, passed the Assembly and awaits Senate action. The Sequoia Humane Society, through its contract with the county and its cities, takes in more than 500 dogs and cats each month, according to Director Ron Lapham.