The entrance to Waste Management's Kettleman HIlls Facility, a hazardous waste landfill in Kings County. DTSC photo

A Kings County supervisor turned to social media Sunday with a message to a member of the Kardashian family: the Central Valley will not tolerate disrespect or toxic fire waste.

Supervisor Richard Valle was responding to a demonstration held last Thursday in Southern California that included reality television stars Kourtney Kardashian and Kendra Wilkinson. The pair and others were protesting a decision to dump more toxic waste from the recent Los Angeles wildfires at a landfill in Calabasas, where the Kardashian family lives.

“We would love it to go where? To the middle of nowhere – where it’s not around any families or children,” Kardashian said at the protest, according to a CBS news report.

The celebrities were photographed with a protester who was holding a sign that read, “Dump the toxic waste in Kettleman Hills & Buttonwillow, not by our homes.”

Buttonwillow in Kern County has a hazardous waste landfill, as does the Kettleman Hills Facility operated by Waste Management in western Kings County, which Supervisor Valle represents.

 

Valle wrote Sunday that he was unable to sleep after seeing news of the demonstration, calling out Kardashian and Wilkinson for what he said was a lack of compassion for residents of the Central Valley.

“Come hell or high water, your waste will not come to Kettleman City,” Valle wrote.

He also demanded an apology.

Residents near Kettleman HIlls have long said that toxic materials have contaminated their tap water, causing severe health problems. In 2016, resident advocacy groups, the Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control reached a legal settlement of a federal civil rights complaint that led to the construction of a water treatment plant.

The protest in Calabasas came after the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors approved a plan for three Los Angeles-area landfills to accept more toxic wildfire debris.