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Daly City approves contract for Mussel Rock Landfill improvements

by Brendan P. Bartholomew

Daly City has chosen a Half Moon Bay-based contractor to maintain and improve its environmentally sensitive Mussel Rock Landfill, beginning by the end of this year.

Adjacent to Allied Waste’s Mussel Rock Transfer Station, the site sits on the coast near the Pacifica-Daly City border. According to a staff report, the site’s upkeep is crucial, because it sits within a landslide-prone area. Maintenance is necessary, staff said, because ground movement and erosion could cause buried waste to be released into the ocean.

The maintenance contract was awarded to the Stoloski & Gonzalez Construction Company of Half Moon Bay, whose $567,675 bid was the lowest among four firms. Staff said the contractor has completed other construction projects at the Mussel Rock site as recently as 2010.

Director of Public Works John Fuller said the city’s primary concern with the project is to make sure groundwater is not contaminated by the landfill. He said although the site is in a geologically unstable area along the San Andreas fault, it’s unlikely that buried garbage could escape from the site into the ocean.

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Submitted by Brendan Bartholomew