Page Property

The Page Property at 3920 Canyon Road is located approximately 3 miles northeast of the City of Willits in the eastern foothills of Little Lake Valley.  The Property is located on a hill between two seasonal creeks: Darby Creek to the north and west; and an unnamed creek (Page Creek) to the east and south.

In the later half of the 1940s, the City of Willits began municipal waste disposal (burn dump) operations at the Property .  In 1953, Mr. Page began operating a garbage and septic waste hauling service at the Property.  In the late 1960s, liquid industrial waste from the Remco Facility and other industrial operations in the Willits area were reportedly collected by Mr. Page and disposed of at the Property into pits constructed by Mr. Page on top of the landfill.  Municipal waste disposal operations at the Property ceased in 1970 when the City opened a new landfill.  After ceasing municipal disposal operations in 1970, the City deeded the Property to Mr. Page.  Mr. Page ceased industrial waste disposal operations, including liquid waste disposal, in April 1974.  The disposal pits were covered by June of 1974 pursuant to regulatory demands. However, septic waste continued to be disposed of at the Property until 1989.  The former disposal areas at the Property are shown on the graphic at the top of this page. The City resumed ownership of the Property in 1989 per the terms of a settlement agreement with the Page Estate.

Beginning in 2004, the Willits Trust has performed remedial investigation activities to characterize the nature and extent of contamination at the Property associated with wastes reportedly hauled by Mr. Page from the former Remco Hydraulics Facility.  These activities include ongoing surface water and groundwater monitoring.