Sanitation districts in Los Angeles and Orange Counties also have accepted Superfund site wastes. It seems hard to believe, doesn't it. Hugh Kaufman, US EPA whistleblower explains how this is possible from a legal and political standpoint in his testimony at a 1997 New Hampshire citizens forum. It will sit there making the land unusable and dangerous to the local citizens forever. But it won't bother the people in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
Kern County is rural and relatively poor.
We have less money and fewer voters than Los Angeles. That is why we have one of the largest hazardous waste facility in the west in Kettleman City, Kern County, California where the people are particularly poor and hispanic. We also have many new prisons that have a large percentage of inmates from southern California. They don't want their own convicts near them any more than their own sludge disposal.