California Landfill's Landmark Status Under Review

In her first wave of landmark nominations since taking office this spring, Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton named the nation's first trench method landfill one of 15 sites placed on the National Register of Historic Places this summer, but she quickly rescinded the honor after learning of the landfill's toxic history. The Fresno Municipal Sanitary landfill was named a national historic landmark on Aug. 27 by Secretary Norton. Only later was she informed that the landfill was placed on the Superfund list in 1989, two years after it closed. Norton rescinded the honor on Aug. 28, ...

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