Waste Connections, one of the nation’s largest waste management companies, is set to purchase Napa County’s Upper Valley Disposal & Recycling Service and Clover Flat Landfill, two dumpsites serving the northern Napa Valley that have been owned and operated for decades by the Pestoni family.
Board members of the Upper Valley Waste Management Agency, the body that oversees the area’s waste services, unanimously signed off on the transfer of the existing franchise agreements and ownership. That clears the way for the two businesses to move forward with the sale.
Christy Pestoni, chief operating officer for Upper Valley Disposal Service, said that with the death of her father and company founder Bob Pestoni last year and faced with evolving state regulations, the much larger Waste Connections would be a “better fit.” “To further build upon what our family started in 1963, the shareholders of the company, Sylvia Pestoni and Linda Sereni, have decided to close this chapter of our family heritage,” Pestoni said in an Oct. 6 letter asking the Upper Valley Waste Management Agency to approve the sale. It is time for a new and stronger partner that will be better poised for California’s future regulatory environment.”