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Puente Hills Landfill Puente Hills Liquefied Natural Gas Station Dual LNG/CNG fueling station Low emissions

13130 Crossroads Parkway South City of Industry, CA 91746 Background The Puente Hills Liquefied Natural Gas Fueling station located at the Puente Hills Material Recovery Facility began operation in October of 2005.This facility was built to provide fueling capability for vehicles and other equipment fueled by liquefied natural gas or compressed natural gas. Landfill The Puente Hills Landfill services homes and businesses in over 60 cities as well as unincorporated areas within Los Angeles County, managing approximately one third of the countywide waste requiring disposal. Fuel Replacement The Liquefied Natural Gas Fueling Station has two 15,000-gallon horizontal liquefied natural gas cryogenic storage tanks located inside a below grade pit containment. The facility also has two LNG dispensers rated at 30 LNG-gallons per minute, a 200 gpm LNG off-loading pump and a dedicated LNG offloading pump skid. The Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Station has a 3-bank high pressure (5,000 psig) CNG cascade storage vessel each capable of storing 12,200 SCF. The facility dispenses fuel at 3.5 gpm at either 3,600 or 3,000 psig. Benefits Natural gas benefits the environment since it is a cleaner burning fuel relative to gasoline or diesel. This aides the Sanitation Districts in the integration of alternative fueled vehicles in its fleet for compliance with SCAQMD 1190 series Fleet Rules. Natural gas also saves the Sanitation Districts money since it is less expensive to produce costing about one dollar less per gasoline gallon equivalent.