Laserfiche WebLink
- Page 1 of 1 <br /> Natalia Subbotnikova [EH] <br /> From: Ambrose, Sabra [Sabra.Ambrose@CalRecycle.ca.gov] <br /> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 5:49PM <br /> To: Natalia Subbotnikova[EH]; Robert McClellon [EH] <br /> Cc: Young, Glenn <br /> Subject: FW: Lodi News Article on the Former City of Lodi Landfill <br /> Attachments: City of Lodi Landfill Article Local Paper.pdf <br /> Hi Natalia and Robert, <br /> Thank you for participating in the meeting at RiverPointe this week. Your input was helpful for the <br /> homeowners. Glenn found an article attached below. Also,the RiverPointe home owners want to meet on <br /> Wed Feb 8th to see the presentation again. The HOA Board is hoping to get all the owners at the meeting. I'll let <br /> everybody know the details when I find out. Please let us know if you want to add anything to the agenda we <br /> had this week. <br /> Thank you again. <br /> Sabra <br /> FYI <br /> http•/Iwww.lodinews.com/features/vintage loth/article 2c54a836-Of62-511f-aca6-8949993907ff.html <br /> About 35 men lived in"the slum development"on the Community Winery property(today's River Pointe subdivision)just <br /> north of the city limits then.They built dwellings of old tin and whatever scrap they could find in the old dump site.Paths were <br /> worn under the trestle to go from the jungles on the west side of the trestle to the old dump on the east side. <br /> The settlement was described in those 195o articles as"a 20-to 3o-year-old community."Many of the residents had lived there <br /> for years and developed their own codes of conduct.Police said the problems came from the transients who just stopped for a <br /> little while in the jungles.The January 1950 killing was the third murder within five years there. <br /> The newspaper articles concluded that it was"unlikely that anything will be done soon to destroy or rebuild the settlement." <br /> In March 1982,the Lodi Planning Commission rezoned the"Scenic Overlook"for residential use.It was called then"a former <br /> city dump of questi abllrquahty."It had been"dead weight"for the city for the previous 10 years and was used to dump <br /> leaves.With many uncertainties about the soil quality and possible contamination from waste,no residences have been built <br /> on the old dumping grounds.Thoughts of turning it into a city park also were dropped 20 years ago,but recent talks about a <br /> river access point have been raised again. <br /> The land east of the trestle remailfs city property surrounded by the river,railroad tracks and residences.The city no longer <br /> dumps leaves,and the land is unused.But in hot weather,youths often sneak back along the railroad tracks and reach the river <br /> for swimming and jumping off the trestle. <br /> And occasionally the old city dump is the temporary camp for homeless people like George Wilson and many others over many <br /> decades who have called"the jungles"beside the tracks and the river their"home <br /> Glenn K.Young,P.E. <br /> Closed,Illegal and Abandoned Site Section <br /> Department of Resource Recovery and Recycling(CalRecycle) <br /> 1001"1"Street <br /> Sacramento,CA 95812 <br /> Work:(916)341-6696 <br /> Fax: (916)319-7528 <br /> email:glenn.young@calrecycle.ca.gov <br /> 1/30/2012 <br />