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�Tracy <br /> Ripon <br /> Tire dump owner says <br /> Smg 10pernut loss won't hurt ,u„� ��•f <br /> � <br /> 132 <br /> By Rob Nelson Since then, the company has <br /> Record Staff'Writer been bypassing the Westley lot SAN 33 <br /> with its loads of used tires, send- JOAQUIN Grayson <br /> The California Integrated Waste ing trucks directly to dumps and Co. . __- <br /> Management Board stormed an power plants after they pick tires <br /> undefended hill when it voted up, Kirkland said. <br /> unanimously Monday to shut "It's like the (waste manage- STANISLAUS <br /> down a Westley tire pile, said ment) board is shutting me down Co. <br /> Mark Kirkland, the pile's owner. from doing something I haven't <br /> The board's decision essentially even been doing anyway," <br /> prevents Oxford Tine Recycling, the Kuidand said. Oxford Tire <br /> company that owns the immense Tine yards make money when <br /> tire-disposal facility in Stanislaus auto dealers pay them to take old Recycling Co. <br /> County, from taking in new tires tires off their hands; the yard <br /> at its Westley site. But Oxford owners then must pay to foist the Sheldon Cordier-Carpenter/Record <br /> tires off on landfills and on power <br /> stopped throwing new tires onto plants that burn them for fuel. Board officials said. <br />•the pile almost two years ago, Oxford can indeed continue its "The permit revocation only <br /> when the load reached an esti- recycling operations as long as no affects the tire pile," said Lanny <br /> hated 10 million tires, the largest new tires are added to the Westley <br />)n the West Coast. pile, Integrated Waste Mana0ement Please see TIRE,Back Qage <br />