To : Illinois POllution Control Board

100 West Randolph St .

Chicago, IL

60601

Fr : Jane Johnson

Re : Case 2006

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I have lived near Dahinda, IL for over 56 years and I used

to hear much discussion about a toxic waste dumping site at an

area called Pottstown near Peoria, IL . Usually the talk turned

to how the site was managed and maintained, which was regarded

as poorly as well as inadequate .

I was friends with the Richwoods Township Road Commissioner,

Max Gale (formerly a SEABEE in the Service) and he spoke so often

to anyone who would listen about the very lax, most negligent and

most damaging toxic waste dumping that took place at Pottstown .

According to him, toxic waste was trucked in from everywhere,

even form 15 states all the time . He would scold the proprietors

because they kept little or no records of what was dumpted there,

exactly where it was dumped, where it came from and the content of

the waste .

Major manufacturing companies such as John Deere and others in

and around this area used Pottstown as a big old pot to dump toxic

waste into and then forget ahout .i'Max, in his disgust used to tell

anybody who would listen about the situation which was abominable

to him but what did any of the farmers around Dahinda and Apple-

ton, IL care about what was happening to land over the Sankoty

Aquifer down along the Illinois River? They were worried about

whether oe not the Spoon River was going to rise above it's banks

for the third time that year and wipe out their crops again

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My point here is that the Peoria Disposal Company's landfill

site contains ancient burial grounds of away more toxic wastes

thah first thought ; more than anyone involved today in this dispute

of expanding the site knows about .

Respectfully submitted,

Jane Johnson

Gilson,1.775

KnoxILHwy61436

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August 6, 2006

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