By Patric Hedlund

Kern County Counsel Charles Collins did not mince words in his opening thrust March 27 about the serious consequences of L.A. City Sanitation Department dumping massive amounts of green waste in Lebec in 2013.

A Kern County Agriculture Commissioner has levied a $895,000 fine against the city. The hearing in the Kern County Board of Supervisors’ chambers was for Los Angeles to protest that fine.

Collins said 279 loads of green waste was…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Khalil Gharios, manager of the Los Angeles Department of Sanitation units at Long Beach and Lopez Canyon, sent the green waste into Kern County from those processing facilities. In back, L.A. Deputy City Attorney John Carvalho watches the testimony in a sometimes heated hearing.

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