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March 26, 1992 | TRACEY KAPLAN
Work crews will spend up to six weeks repairing a Santa Clarita bridge damaged when a sewer line broke. But traffic congestion in the area was eased after the city opened a westbound lane Wednesday. Traffic on the Valencia Boulevard bridge was reduced from five to three lanes Saturday after the pipeline ruptured, spilling an estimated 600,000 gallons of raw sewage into the Santa Clara River.
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April 30, 1992 | HUGO MARTIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
For more than two years, a sign posted on the unfinished Whites Canyon Road bridge in Santa Clarita bore the name of Mike Antonovich, the Los Angles County supervisor who represents the area. The bridge, which begins just south of Soledad Canyon Road but ends abruptly before reaching the other side, was never completed because the housing market dried up, and with it the developers' fees to pay for it ran out.
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June 11, 1992 | TRACEY KAPLAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Bowing to pressure from business leaders and developers, the city of Santa Clarita has backed away from taking over two county-run sanitation districts that serve most of the Santa Clarita Valley. The City Council rejected the takeover 3 to 2 late Tuesday after hearing testimony from opponents who feared the move would result in higher sewer fees and give the city a means to control growth in outlying areas.
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July 15, 1993 | JAMES ZOLTAK, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
About half a dozen residents from the Four Oaks community in Canyon Country, many of them complaining that they have had to put temporary outhouses in their yards or garages and have been showering in plastic tubs because of sewer problems related to high ground-water levels, are taking their case to the City Council. Winter rains are blamed for the flooding, which for the last three months has undermined and damaged streets and sidewalks in the area.
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May 4, 1995 | MAKI BECKER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
To head up its continuing battle against the proposed Elsmere Canyon Landfill project, the city of Santa Clarita has reassigned its public works director to the new post of deputy city manager in charge of special projects. His only project for the time being, city officials said, will be the fight against BKK Corp.'s controversial plans to build a 190-million-ton landfill just outside city limits.
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November 3, 1994 | DOUGLAS ALGER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Residents' use of the city's curbside trash recycling program fell in the first half of this year to the lowest level in the two-year history of the program, despite city advertising campaigns, school presentations and cash awards, city public works officials said Wednesday. City officials, under pressure from a state law to encourage recycling, blamed the Northridge earthquake for the drop-off.