Unincorporated area landfill voucher program, Antelope Valley property owners.

Palmdale, CA -The Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force has doubled the number of landfill vouchers provided to residents and property owners in the unincorporated Antelope Valley.

Beginning July 1, each household or property owner in the unincorporated Antelope Valley can receive two vouchers, each for dumping a half ton of waste -- about a typical pickup truck load. The vouchers can be used any day local landfills are open through June 2025.

Only one voucher per household or property owner was provided in the current program, which concludes when the 2023-24 fiscal year ends June 30.

The vouchers are not available for properties or households inside Palmdale or Lancaster city limits.

Communities in the unincorporated Antelope Valley include Acton, Agua Dulce, Green Valley, Leona Valley, Desert View Highlands, Ana Verde Hills, Littlerock, Sun Village, Pearblossom, Llano, Valyermo, Juniper Hills, Lake Los Angeles, Roosevelt, Del Sur, Fairmont, Lake Hughes, Elizabeth Lake, Three Points, Neenach, Oso and Antelope Acres.

Unincorporated area residents and property owners can go to Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger’s Antelope Valley office, 42455 10th St. West, Suite 104, Lancaster, to pick up the vouchers. For more information, call the office at (661) 726-3600.

Proof of residency or property ownership will be required.

(Vouchers for the 2023-24 program are still available, but they must be used before June 30.)

Supervisor Barger’s office is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except holidays. The office will be closed Thursday, July 4.

The landfill voucher program started as a pilot program in late 2019 but went on hiatus starting in July 2022 for lack of funding. The program resumed in July 2023 after more funding was obtained.

The task force will review funding status periodically.

Voucher issuance will end when funding is exhausted or on June 30, 2025, if not renewed by the task force.

Here are the 2024-25 landfill vouchers program guidelines, incorporating the directions made by the Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force in its June 5 vote to expand the program.

1.            Landfill vouchers are produced, distributed and tracked by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Fifth District. Vouchers are printed on paper that displays a watermark saying "void" if duplicated, in order to hinder counterfeiting.

2.            Landfill vouchers are usable only at Waste Management’s Lancaster Landfill and Recycling Center, 600 East Ave. F, Lancaster, or its Antelope Valley Recycling & Disposal Facility, 1200 West City Ranch Road, Palmdale.

3.            Landfill vouchers will be made available to residents and owners of property in Los Angeles County unincorporated areas in the ZIP Codes 91390 (Green Valley/Agua Dulce), 92397 (Big Pines), 93510 (Acton), 93532 (Lake Hughes/Elizabeth Lake/Three Points), 93534 (central Lancaster), 93535 (east Lancaster/Roosevelt/Lake Los Angeles), 93536 (Antelope Acres/Neenach/Quartz Hill/Fairmont/west Lancaster), 93543 (Sun Village/Littlerock/Juniper Hills), 93544 (Llano), 93550 (central Palmdale), 93551 (Leona Valley/Ana Verde Hills/west Palmdale), 93552 (east Palmdale/Littlerock), 93553 (Pearblossom/Juniper Hills), 93563 (Valyermo), 93591 (Lake Los Angeles/Sun Village) and 93599 (Black Butte).

4.            Each household or property owner in the designated unincorporated areas can request two landfill vouchers from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.

5.            Each landfill voucher will pay for up to one-half (1/2) ton of disposal. (A typical standard, full-size pickup truck is rated to carry one-half ton or three-quarters of a ton.) Hazardous materials are not allowed.

6.            The Board of Supervisors Fifth District has discretion to determine if additional vouchers can be provided if proof of need is determined and neighborhood safety or cleanliness can be improved by providing additional vouchers.

7.            If a person other than the voucher recipient will haul the waste to the landfill, the voucher recipient must notify Waste Management at least 24 hours in advance and provide the hauler’s identity and contact information. Voucher recipients can call the Lancaster landfill scale house at (661) 726-3461 or the Palmdale landfill scale house at (661) 223-3431. The hauler must provide valid identification at the landfill before the voucher will be accepted by the landfill.

8.            Voucher holders must turn in vouchers at the landfill scale house before dumping.

9.            Vouchers will expire June 30, 2025.

10.          The program began Oct. 2, 2019 and was renewed in June 2020 and June 2021, then again in June 2023. The program was put in hiatus due to lack of funding in June 2022. The Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force will review funding status periodically. The Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force may end the program at any time.

11.          Issuance of 2024-25 vouchers will end June 30, 2025, or when funding is exhausted.

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