We are deeply concerned the proposed South
Coast County Golf Course to be built on the
old Palos Verdes Landfill will have a negative
impact on our South Bay community.

1. The Palos Verdes Landfill is a Class 1 Industrial
Hazardous Waste landfill and during the 1970s was
receiving approximately 40% of the Class 1 waste
generated in the Los Angeles region.

2. For the first 18 years of its 28 years of active
operations the landfill received waste with no
manifests indicating what was being dumped into the
landfill, consequently we have an incomplete record
of what is actually in the landfill.

3. The Palos Verdes Landfill is an old style landfill
with NO bottom liner to contain toxic leachate and
has only five feet of soil cover instead of a cap to
protect from water intrusion from above. Modern
Class 1 landfills are required to use a composite
system of clay and a synthetic polyethelene
membrane to protect the deposited waste from water
intrusion.

4. The Palos Verdes Landfill is in close proximity to
the Palos Verdes Fault line and has had its northern
parcel identified as prone to debris flow (mudslides),
both of which call into question the continued
integrity of any barrier system.

5. Subsidence due to natural decomposition in a
landfill can violate the integrity of the landfill cover.

6. The lack of a bottom liner (modern Class 1
landfills have double liners) means that if the soil
cover is compromised by water, the resulting toxic
leachate will threaten the Peninsula communities as
well as the Torrance neighborhoods down-hill of the
site.

7. Meritage Golf projects that they will use
approximately 400,000 gallons of water per day.

8. The Palos Verdes Landfill borders or is in close
proximity to two elementary schools, two churches, a
pre-school, and numerous private homes.

9. Of the 19 applications purchased by and sent out
to golf course developers, only Meritage Golf
submitted a proposal.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

FIRST: Contact the members

of the Los Angeles Board of

Supervisors. They will be the

ones voting on whether or

not to build the golf course. Mailed
letters are best.

Don Knabe

Supervisor, 4th District

822 Kenneth Hahn Hall of
Administration

500 W. Temple St.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

213-974-4444

213-626-6941

Zev Yaroslavsky

Supervisor, 3rd District

821 Kenneth Hahn Hall of
Administration

500 W. Temple St.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

213-974-3333

213-625-7360 fax

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke

Supervisor, 2nd District

866 Kenneth Hahn Hall of
Administration

500 W. Temple St.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

213-974-2222

213-680-3283 fax

Michael D. Antonovich

Supervisor, 5th District

869 Kenneth Hahn Hall of
Administration

500 W. Temple St.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

213-974-5555

213-974-1010 fax

Gloria Molina

Supervisor, 1st District

856 Kenneth Hahn Hall of
Administration

500 W. Temple St.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

213-974-4111

213-613-1739 fax

SECOND: Print out our

and circulate it in your
neighborhood, child's school,
church or temple.

Mail the petition to:

South Bay CARES

P.O. Box 3063

Palos Verdes, CA. 90274

THIRD: Attend local
government meetings and

Speak Up. Let your city council
members, county

supervisors, and other local
government officials know

how you feel about this proposal.
Click

for date, time, and place of Local
Government meetings.

FOURTH: South Bay CARES is
100% Volunteer funded and
staffed. Please contribute so that
we can continue informing the
South Bay public about the hazards
of building a golf course on the
Palos Verdes Landfill. No
contribution is too small (or too
big.) Make checks payable to:

South Bay CARES

Mail to:

South Bay CARES

P.O. Box 3063

Palos Verdes, CA. 90274

WHO WE ARE

Executive Committee & Supporters

Joan Davidson

Former President PVPUSD Board of
Education

S.B.CARES Executive Committee

Gary Kuwahara

Member TUSD Board of Education

Ed Thompson

Former Mayor of Palos Verdes Est.

Ginny Leeuwenburgh

Former Mayor of Rolling Hills

Gerald N. Felando

Former State Assemblyman

Dr. John Schmitt

Assistant Superintendent Torrance
Unified School District

Barry Hildebrand

Former President PVPUSD Board of
Education

Dr. Owen Griffith

Former President TUSD Board of
Education

Vanessa Poster

Women's Coalition South Bay

George Uraguchi

Trustee Palos Verdes Library
District

Jacki McGuire

Former Council Member Rolling
Hills Estates

Mary Schaal

Founder of Basswood Homeowners
Association

Palos Verdes Peninsula
Horsemens Association

Ray Wintroub, M.D.

Pediatrician

Norman M. Panitch, M.D.

Gastroenterologist

James Tamkin, M.D.

Endocrinologist

Rosemary Berman, M.D. &
Ph.D. Neuroscience

Gene Sherman, M.D.

Oncologist

Reinhold Ullrich, M.D.

Physician

Richard Palmer, M.D.

Physician

Carl Tabellario, M.D.

Pediatrician

Randall Hulbert, M.D.

Physician

Arthur Cohen, M.D.

Pathologist

Steven Kolodny, M.D.

Pulmonary Specialist

Arthur Smukler, M.D.

Physician

Edwin Caine, M.D.

Psychiatrist

Robert Schwartz, M.D.

Ophthalmologist

Wesley G. Bradford, M.D.

Physician

Sanford Davidson, M.D.

Ophthalmologist

Mark Berman, M.D.

Anesthesiologist

Robert Sostrin, M.D.

Radiologist

Paul Smith, M.D.

Dermatologist

Ellen Sherman, M.D.

Physician

Larry August, M.D.

Ophthalmologist

John Gebhard, M.D.

Dermatologist

Nickolas Tomasic, M.D.

Urologist

Ted Blatt, M.D.

Orthopedist

Richard Teller, M.D.

Ophthalmologist

Gerald Schiff, M.D.

Surgeon

Susan D. McNary, Ph.D.

Psychologist

Allen Berger, Ph.D.

Psychologist

Michael Fouladian, O.D.

Optometrist

Lisa B. Fiore, Ph.D.

Child Development Specialist

Beverly B. Palmer, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

Carl Lundgren, D.D.S.

Dentist

Christy O'Hara

Landscape Architect

Jeanie Jones

C.A.P.

Kerry Welch

Certified Public Accountant

Brigitte Schuegraf

Co-Founder Friends of School Music

Beverly Ackerson

Community Activist, P.A.N.I.C.

Benjamin Ackerson

Engineer

John Gilkey

Architect

Loretta Pierce

Owner, Master Design Clothing

Faith Harper

Vice-president, FHL Corp.

Peter McGuire

S.B.CARES Executive Committee

Teresa Rankin

S.B.CARES Executive Committee

Bruce Trotman

S.B.CARES Executive Committee

Karen Greenberg

S.B.CARES Executive Committee

David Henseler

S.B.CARES Executive Committee

Melody Colbert

S.B.CARES Executive Committee

Christina Zimmerman

S.B.CARES Executive Committee

And the more than 6000 (thus far)
citizens of the South Bay who have
signed South Bay CARES' petition to
stop the development of a golf course
on the Palos Verdes Landfill.

South Bay CARES

South Bay Citizens Aligned for Responsible Environmental Solutions

Questions or Comments:

Contact the local Press and
inform them of your concerns:

South Bay CARES 2006

A FEW QUOTES:

"We had the best soils engineers and geologists that
money could buy. The county signed off on it. We did
everything we could do." (Barry G. Hon, founder of Hon
Development, commenting on the slope collapse in
Laguna Niguel: The Orange County Register)

"Builders do shop for their own geotechnical engineers.
We've even seen where builders have shopped around
various soil engineers until they get the answer they
want." (Thomas E. Miller, a Newport Beach
construction defects expert and attorney: The Miller
Law Firm On-Line Press Release)

"Water is the enemy of soil. It doubles its weight and
cuts its strength in half." (Dave Skelly, civil engineer
for Ocean Trails: Palos Verdes Peninsula News)

"I used to play at Mountain Gate… It's built on a
landfill full of Beverly Hills' and Bel Air's trash. You can
actually smell the garbage when you're playing golf, and
the greens sort of fluctuate, you know. And you'd see
things coming up, like, a plastic bag. . . ."(Actor Dennis
Hopper in a conversation with Jean Stein)

NOTE: Mountain Gate is built on a municipal landfill
i.e., household trash. The P.V. Landfill is a Class 1
Industrial Hazardous Waste landfill.

ALTERNATIVES:

South Bay CARES advocates using the Palos Verdes
Landfill site in a responsible manner requiring a
minimum of irrigation. Irrigation of the Site should
simply provide for sufficient ground cover to prevent
soil erosion. The Site now is essentially open space
with a few Equestrian and Hiking Trails and used by
Ham Radio Operators of the South Bay, one of the
largest Ham radio groups in the country. In the spirit
of the results of the Citizen Advisory Committee to
the South Coast Project survey, we recommend the
following additional uses for the Site be considered:

Walking Path

Nature Center

Picnic Area

Bicycle Path

Jogging Course

Physical Fitness Course

It should be noted that the results of a citizen survey
administered in 1984 as part of the South Coast
General Development Plan of 1985, a plan that has
served as a basis for the current golf course proposal,
a golf course was listed among the least desirable uses
for the Palos Verdes Landfill site among the survey
respondents. (County of Los Angeles Department of
Parks and Recreation South Coast General
Development Plan June 1985, Page 71)

Liz Brown's Cox Cable interview
with Supervisor Don Knabe, and
South Bay CARES' on-line
response.

BASIC QUESTIONS:

A second basic question is: "Is it safe to build a golf
course on the Palos Verdes Landfill site?" Golf courses
on landfills are not uncommon. There are over 70 such
arrangements in the U.S., and we are sure that number
will grow. We are not opposed to golf courses, or
necessarily to golf courses on landfills. However, neither
the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD)
nor Meritage Golf has answered the following
questions...............

A third basic question is: "When the interests of the
golf course conflict with the interests and safety of the
community, who will win out?" The LACSD
has...............

A fourth basic question is: "How will the grading for the
golf course affect the environment during the
construction phase?" Both the soil currently on site as
well as soil brought in for the construction of the golf
course will become airborne. Sampling of the soil at the
Site has shown it...............