ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

December

9,

1971

CITY OF ROCKFORD

V.

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71—310

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Opinion and Order of the Board

(by Mr. Currie);

Rockford asks that its citizens be allowed

to burn leaves

until

it has made arrangements

for

a new landfill site,

alleging

that to add the burden of leaves to its other wastes in the

interim would cause

its limited remaining landfill space to be

quickly exhausted,

leaving it no place

to put refuse of

any

kind.

The Agency responds

that the

City has access to another

landfill

site operated by the Greater Rockford Airport Authority.

The City concedes that this alternative

is available for immediate

leaf disposal but argues that “the use of this

site would re-

quire

that our refuse collector collect

the leaves in

a special

truck

for deposit at the Greater Rockford Airport site”

and

that

“such

a method

of collection

is extremely cumbersome and

expensive.”

We think the use

of an extra truck to collect leaves

is

a reasonable price

to pay to avoid the evils of open burning,

which were amply detailed by the evidence adduced at our

extensive hearings on these regulations

(#R 70—li,

Sept.

2,

1971).

The variance is denied.

I, Christan Moffett,

Acting Clerk of the Pollution Control

Board, certify that the Boar~adopted

the above Opinion and

Order this

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