Lawsuits over Grabhorn landfill continue to pile up

The Beaverton Valley Times, Jan 15, 2009, Updated Oct 30, 2009

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A legal fight over the Lakeside Reclamation Landfill on Southwest Vandermost Road is heating up, with federal lawsuits flying back and forth.

Attorneys for landfill owner Howard Grabhorn are suing Metro to block a new rule that would keep Lakeside from receiving more construction waste, something that will effectively shut down the 56-year-old facility. That lawsuit was filed Dec. 31 in Portland’s U.S. District Court.

At the same time, a federal lawsuit against the landfill brought in May by the Northwest Environmental Defense Center in Portland alleging federal clean water standard violations is slowly winding toward a possible trial in October.

Grabhorn has denied all the allegations brought by that lawsuit.

On Monday, the Northwest Environmental Defense Center sent a six-page letter to Grabhorn and Lakeside Landfill warning that it and the Friends of the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge would file another federal lawsuit claiming that the landfill allowed the dumping of hazardous material that could pollute nearby streams and the Tualatin River.

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