On Thursday and Friday, December 19 and 20, 2024, Chiquita may experience downtime of Flares 1, 2 and 3 during operating hours to allow for safe working conditions while Southern California Edison performs electrical work . Southern California Edison has not yet communicated the time and duration of the electrical work to Chiquita. At no point does the Landfill intend for all the flares to be offline at the same time or outside of operating hours. Due to this potential downtime, there may be a possibility of increased odors in the community during the indicated time period.

Under Condition 81 of the Modified Stipulated Order for Abatement in Case No. 6177-4, Chiquita Canyon, LLC (Chiquita) is required to notify the community (i) if any individual control device has downtime which is anticipated to last 30 minutes or more or once any downtime for an individual control device reaches 30 minutes of downtime or (ii) if the downtime of any combination of landfill gas collection equipment results or is planned to result in a reduction of gas flow to control devices by 10% or more and the downtime is anticipated to last 30 minutes or more or once any downtime for such devices reach 30 minutes of downtime.