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<br />.\ <br />I Los Angeles llsing gas from refuse for energy <br />I . a..{7/ '6b '/. c2- ar-: . <br />\. United Press International .l.. tons of refuse were accumulated be- <br />tween 1962 and 1974. <br />I <br /> <br />.~.". . <br /> <br />! <br />Project officials estimate that 1 bll- \ <br />lion cubic feet of landfill gas can be <br />recovered annually for the next 10 <br />years, providing 28 million kilowatt <br />hours of elect~clty- <br /> <br />. \ <br />....:..---- - ---- --~ ~ ~. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Los Angeles, Calif. <br />. Los Angeles is the first city in the na- <br />tion to make direct use of methane <br />gas recovered from a refuse landfill <br />i to produce energy, according to En- <br />. ergy User News.. <br /> <br />The News said. Los Angeles is .using I <br />the gas, a by-product of normal de- <br />caying processes of organic materi. <br />aI, to eliminate the burning of 83,000 <br />gallons of fuel oil annually as boiler <br />fuel to power an electric generating <br />plant. The program is the result of . <br />an. eight-year researc.h-and-deVelOP-\ <br />m~nt project at the Sheldon-Arlete <br />landfill site, where l\bout 6 million <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~-I <br />