After failing to agree on sale of the Mecham Road landfill, Sonoma County (California) supervisors now are shopping for a company to reopen and operate the shuttered dumpsite. The facility, closed to trash since 2005, is the subject of renewed debate because supervisors voted Tuesday to seek bids from waste processors interested in temporarily reopening it and securing new state permits for expanding it. Regulators ordered the landfill to begin closure proceedings following discovery of a damaged section of liner.

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