RECEEVED
ILLiNOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
CLERK’S
opFr~
November7, 2002
LANDFILL 33, LTD.,
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JI~N
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STATE OF ILLINOIS
Petitioner,
)
Pollution
Control Board
)
vs.
)
No. PCB 03-43
)
(Third-Party Pollution Control
)
Facility Siting Appeal)
EFFINGHAM COUNTY BOARD
and
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SUTTER SANITATION SERVICES,
)
C,
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)
Respondents.
)
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STOCK&CO.,
)
)
Petitioner,
)
)
vs.
)
PCB 03-52
)
(Third-Party Pollution Control
EFFINGHAM COUNTY BOARD and
)
Facility Siting Appeal)
SUUER SANITATION SERVICES,
)
(Consolidated)
)
Respondents.
)
PUBLIC COMMENT OF BRIIME
KNIERIM
Myname is Bridie Knierim. I am a resident ofEffingham County,
illinois. Since
November
1, 2002, I have been living in a residence located directlyacross the street from the
proposed Sutter Sanitation Transfer Facility. I lease that residence from Mr.
Lloyd Stock.
It is my understanding that garbage trucks have already been coming in and out ofthe
site. This causes me concern. I am very concerned that this proposed transfer station is to be
located so close to my home (which is less than 200 yards from the proposed site). I am also
concerned with the impact that the proposed transfer station would have-upon all residences in
the area and our quality oflife.
I was disappointed. that the County Board did not even make available to people the
comments
from the hearing that was held in the summer to discuss Sutter’s application, before it
decided to give the okay for the waste transfer station.
That does not seem right to
me and just
makes me feel more strongly that what happened was that this thing got pushed through by some
people in other parts of the county outside of.Mason township for some other political reason.
Dated: 02January03
Respectfully submitted,
Bridie Knierim ~
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has
the cppcrt~iiity
to comment on
a
rlispute
between
~Sutter
Sanitation and two busluesses that have challenged
Sutter’s
right
to
~ develop
a tran~far
station in southwest
Efflngham County.
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Landfill 33 inc. of
Effingham
arid Stack & Co.,
LLC3
of TaylorviHe
have
diallengad
Sutter’s
efftrt
to
develop the
transfer çtatiqn
at
the
old
Quandt
Grain
Elevator an
the
ParinafAibmont
blacktop~
about
seven
miles
south
of
Altamont
The Efflngham
Coun:y
Board
approved the siting
permit
In
September,
but
Landfill
~3and
Stock
both appealed the ti.illng to
the
Illinois Poflution Control
Board, the state
agency
that oversees
solid
waste
disposal
facilities.
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When originally applying for tha permit to
build the transfer station, Suttar
J
Sanitation
owner Tracy
SLitter
said the
owri~r
of Landfill 3~
had made it
clear
that
Sutter
Sanitation
is
~ot welcome to
dump-
garbage
at Laoidl9ll
33
That forces
Suttar
to haul trash to landfills ouf~sida
of Effingham County
rbaqe
trucks
are
not
intand~idto make that kinâ of long trip
over
highways,
and
making
the
trip
to
other
land~1ls
is proving very costly to
Suttar.
The
proposed
tran;fer~tation
would be
a site where his garbage
trucks
would
be unloaded, and the refuse then relGaded
Into sen1itraile~s
to
be hauled
away.
PCS
hearing
officerBradley
Halloran
conductedthe
appeal
hearing
Thursday
in the
E1’finghem
Cointy
Board
room. Appeals
from
both Landfill
33
and
Stock
were
consolidated
into
one
hearinq,
Public comment will be con~icli~red
by the PCB if
postmarked by Jan.
3.
Attorneys
for
both
Sides
must
~liepost~henringbriefs by Jan.
10. ~eplIesto
those
bri~1s
must be
flied
by
J;~ri.
17.
Halloran
said the PC8 will make its
decision when It meets
Feb.
20
in
Chicago,
Haitoran said transcripts of
thE
hearing will be available
Dec
24
on
the
PCB
Web site at www.ipcbstate.il. us.
Thursci~y’~
hearing
included
testimony from ~ man who lives across the
road
from the proposeci
transf~r
station,
as
well
as
from
Tra;y Sutter
Of
Sutt~rSanitation and
Duane Stock
of Stock
& Co.
Landfill
33
representatives did
i~tOt
testify
Thursday.
N
Uoyd Stock, a
relative
of Duar e Stock
who leases a home across t~e
road
Friday,
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from
the proposed transfer
station,
said the statiOn would
have
a negative
impact
on the immediate area.
~I’mconcerned about the lmpa~t
that the transfer station will hav~”Lloyd
Stook
said.
He added that he
was “concerned
and disappointed’
about the
sItuation.
Uoyd Stock added that he already
has seen garbage trucks pulling into
the
transfer station site
SutteruSe~the site ~s a drop-Off recyding center.
Duane Stock, who owns the home that Lloyd Stock
lives in,
said
he
had
been
hampered
by
riot being
able
to receive
a copy
of the transcript from
the
siting hearing
until late November.
‘That put us
at a disadvantage,” Stock
said.
The mobile home at which
Stock
resides
is within 1,000 feet of the
proposed sitt
-
which Is a vLolal:lon of i~C~
siting criteria.
However, the
homC did not
exist
~t
the time ~hecounty board approved Sutter’s
permit
Lloyd Stock had the home
piec~d
on the prøperty shortly after the board
awarded
the
permit to
Sutter.
Sutter tastlfied Thursday that
a
county board committee visited
his
recycling operation soon after
ib opened
in
March,
though he couldn’t
rememberthe exact date.
He
c id say it was
before he filed his application
a transfer
station
on
April 1~,
Also
testIfying Thursday
was Nancy
Daters
cit
rural
Cuniberland County,
who said It
was
her opinion that Landfill 33~
opposition was
a
“personal
vendetta” against Suffer, who
has
claimed Landfill 33 has
banned
him
from
thimping trash at its facility on the southeast edge
of
Effingham.
Deters, the
mother of
El99ngflarn County State’s Attorney !d
Deters,
admitted that she
had no b~ck’~round
in solid
waste
management,
other
then to take ‘big black bags to the recyding center”
She added that ~e
was net likely to take Sutter’s position merely
because
her son
represents the county board in legal matters.
‘My
son
and I rarely
agree
about anything,” she said
Ed
Deters, who cross-examinel his mother briefly, asked her if she
remembered a statement by farmer county board Chairman Leon
Gobc~ynskithat recyc1iri~was not one
of the issues in the controversy.
but Mrs
Deters said
recycling ~~as
an
underlying
issue during earlier
hearings on the matter.
“It was like the
elephant
in th~room,” she
said,
LandfIll 33
representativeS
did not testify, but owner
Richard
Deibel,
who
attended
the
‘tearing, said aftEr the hearing
that there
was no
vendetta
against Sutter and
that, in fact, SutterSariitatiort
s
not barred from
using
Landfill
33.
Deibel said
Sutter
those to
step using
Landfill
33
after a
disagreement over
a load Inciuding
potentially
ha;~ardousmaterials sever~Iyears ago.
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D&bel
added.
In addition
to owning
Landfill
33,
Deibel aiso owns Sanitation Service
inc.
(also
known a~
the Rubbish
cobbler) a~id
French Sanitation
CO.
$~jtter
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is
the only
garbage
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1cm
Cffingham
r~unty
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by
Detbel.
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