Plan to close Napa’s embattled Clover Flat Landfill discussed publicly for 1st time
A plan to close Napa Valley’s controversial Clover Flat Landfill and move waste to the Potrero Hills Landfill in Suisun City is moving forward. A Waste Connections representative confirmed Monday at a special Upper Valley Waste Management Agency meeting that the company will submit a closure plan to Napa County’s Local Enforcement Agency and state officials in early 2025. It marked the first time the closure had been discussed publicly. … Waste Connections, one of the nation’s largest waste companies, took over the site from the local Pestoni family, which had owned and operated the landfill for decades, in 2023, along with another Napa Valley facility, Upper Valley Disposal Service on Whitehall Lane. But problems have persisted. That includes water sampling by regulators in early 2023, which found the same contaminants in a downstream creek as those identified at the landfill.