The Humboldt County Planning Commission has issued a permit to Recology, allowing the company to acquire the necessary state permits to open a dump outside Winnemucca.

Recology, formerly known as Norcal Waste Systems, intends to collect household trash from San Francisco and surrounding communities and haul it 300 miles by train to a mile-square landfill, says the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

In return, Humboldt County might receive $1 million a year and gain about 25 jobs.

Resident Tami Vetter said the proposed Jungo Road landfill is a health disaster waiting to happen, with 4,000 tons of garbage hauled five days a week over the next 95 years.

The idea of putting San Francisco trash in Humboldt County has divided this desert town of 7,700 people 150 miles east of Reno.

This article appeared on page C - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle