The Peoria Disposal Co. siting appeal request before you is not just another case

.

For one, it was by far the longest (6 days, 53 hours) and largest attended public hearing

in history here. It also brought by far the largest number of letters-to-the-editor ever

(99% to deny PDC's landfill expansion), and opposing petitions with 6,500 signatures!

PDC's "hazardous waste landfill" is the last such landfill still operating in the upper half

of the nation from near Indianapolis to the Rocky Mountains, and one of only 13

remaining commercial (Class B) toxic waste landfills in the nation

.

Its location must be one of the worst sites in Illinois for a toxic waste landfill

:

a) It sits atop the sand-gravel aquiver from which most of the Peoria area's water supply

is pumped, according to Illinois State Water Survey maps

.

b) It is immediately adjoining and upwind of the City of Peoria

-- but there is no testing

for air pollution .

The IEPA permit allow PDC to receive 843 of the most toxic chemicals known short of

nuclear waste

-- but requires only limited testing of groundwater for just 22of-hem.

Also, most of these chemicals will volatilize into the air . Yet the IEPA requires no testing

for air pollution -- even though

scientific studies have revealed a greater incidence of

birth defects in the vicinity of such landfills in New Jersey and five European countries

due to air pollution, and 15% more strokes in adults living near such landfills in New

York state. And PDC does have vents for gases constantly arising from its landfill

.

Moreover, the highly toxic chemicals the IEPA permit allows are brought to the PDC

landfill from up to 15 srates

.

PDC says it wants to put 2.2 million more tons in its landfill . That is twice what

it says

has been put there since 1987 (when EPA regulation essentially started) -- and would

make its hill of toxic wastes nine stories high -- and the highest hill by far in this area .

Also, how much was buried there before 1987 is unknown., (Dumping began in 1940 .)

Incidentally,Lloyd's

of

London will not insure hazardous (toxic) waste landfills .

WHAT WE ARE ASKING IS

:

1) If Illinois wants to continue being the destination point to landfill much of the nation's

toxic waste -- that it find and get the safest place in the state for such a landfill --and

closely oversee the operation itself (rather than just infrequent checks as now)

.

2) Get a federal program to require and accelerate development of means to (a) detoxify

hazardous waste, and (b) recycle it to beneficial uses instead of burying it in the ground

where it remains forever hazardous and a menace .

3)Begin now the permanent closure of the PDC landfill and abatement of

all

its air and

water Dollution -- and i-stablish means for its, literally, forever monitoring and upkeep .

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