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Susan K.
Stock
pollution Control Board
8144
E.
550th
Ave.
Mason, IL
62443
January 2, 2003
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Mr. Bradley Halloran
Illinois Pollution Control Board
100 West Randolph Street
St.
11500
Chicago,
IL
60601
Dear Mr. Halloran:
I live in Mason Township, Effingham County Illinois.
I am writing you to
voice my concern about Sutter Sanitation’s right to develop a transfer station
west ofmy place, at Quandt’s on the blacktop.
I am very concerned about
the hauling ofgarbage. in, and then dumping it on the floor ofone of those
buildings, then reloadmg it onto trailers.
This is a peaceful rural area, I do
not think we need a constant parade oflarge, loud garbage trucks hauling in
and out. Also, I am. afraid it would create another problem
of
peop.l~
being
tempted to start dumpmg theff own garbage out and around, because the
landfill is clear over on the east end ofthe county.
This willprobáblymean
a lot of illegal dumping up and down the blacktop.
There is already too
much traffic up and down this major blacktop. More trucks traveling as fast
as they can, willjust add to the number of accidents.
Last, I am very upset
that the hearings they had did not get communicated better to the public, and
there was no record ofthe hearing minutes available to anyone when they
should have been.
All of this means that I am against having a transfer
station here in our township.
I really do not see any thing positive for us
coming from this transfer station, only negatives.
Thank you for letting me write to you with my concerns.
Sincerely,
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Susan K.
Stock.
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make that
kind of long
trip
over highways,
and making
the
trip
to
other
landfills
is
proving
very
costly
to
Sutter: The
proposed transfer
station
would be a
site
where his
garbage
trucks
would
be
unloaded,
and
the
refuse
then
reloaded
into
semitrailers
to
be
hauled
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away.
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PCB hearing officer Bradley
Halloran con-
abOut
the
impact
ducted
the
appeal
hearing Thursday
in
the
Effingham
County
Board room. Appeals
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from both Landfill
33
and Stock
were consol-
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idated into
one hearing.
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Public
comment will
be
considered by
the
,
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PCB if postmarked
by
Jan.
3.
Attorneys
for
potential ‘neighbor~
both
sides
must
file post-hearing
briefs
by
Jan. 10. Replies to
those briefs
must be
filed
-,
by Jan. 17.
Halloran said the PCB will make its decision when
it
meets Feb. 20
in Chicago.
Halloran said transcripts of the hearing will be
available
Dec.
24 on the PCB Web site at www.ipcb.state.il.us.
Thursday’s
hearing included
testimony
from. a man
who
lives
across
the
road from
the
proposed
transfer
station,
as
well
as
from Tracy
Sutter
of Sutter
Sanitation
and
Duane
Stock
of
Stock
& Co. Landfill 33 representatives did not tes-
tify Thursday.
Lloyd Stock, a relative of Duane
Stock who
leases a home
across the
road
from
the
proposed
transfer
station,
said
the
station would have a negative impact on
the immediate area.
“I’m
concerned about the
impact that the
transfer
station
will
have,”
Lloyd
Stock
said.
He
added
that he
was
“con-
cerned and disappointed”
about the situation.
Lloyd
Stock added that he already has seen garbage trucks
pulling into
the transfer station
site.
Sutter
uses the site
as
a
drop-off recycling center.
Duane Stock,
who owns the
home
that Lloyd Stock
lives
in,
said he had been hampered by
not 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 site
—
which is a violation of IPCB sit-
ing
criteria. However, the home did not exist at the time the
county board approved
Sutter’s permit.
Lloyd
Stock had the
home placed on the property
shortly after the board awarded
Sutter
testified.
Thursday
that a
county board
committee
visited his recycling operation soon after it opened in March,
though he couldn’t remember the exact
date.
He did say
it
was before he filed his
application
for
a
transfer station on April 19.
Also
testifying Thursday
was
Nancy
Deters
of rural Cumberland
County,
who
said it
was
her opinion that Landfill
33’s opposition was
a “personal vendetta” against Sutter,
who has
claimed Landfill
33
has
banned
him
from
dumping
trash at its facility
on
the
southeast
edge of Effingham.
Deters, the mother of Effingham County
State’s Attorney
Ed Deters,
admitted that she
had no
background in
solid
waste
manage-
ment,
other
than to
take
“big black
bags
to
the recycling center.”
She added that she was
not 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-examined
his mother briefly,
asked
her
if
she remembered a
statement
by
former
county board
Chairman Leon Gobczynski that recycling was
not one of
the
issues in the controversy.
But Mrs.
Deters
said
recycling
was
an
underlying
issue
during earlier hearings
on
the matter.
“It was
likethe elephant in the room,” she said.
Landfill
33
representatives
did
not
testify,.but owner.
Richard Deibel,
who attended
the
hearing,
said
after
the
hearing that there was
no vendetta against Sutter and that,
in
fact, Sutter Sanitation is not barred
from using Landfill 33.
Deibel said
Sutter
chose to stop
using
Landfill
33
after a
disagreement over a load including
potentially
hazardOus
materials several years ago.
“We felt like
we needed more clarification
on that particu-
lar load,” Deibel said.
“We have sent him
(Sutter) a letter saying they could
haul
to Landfill
33
as long
as they conduct themselves in
a proper
business manner,” Deibel added.
In addition
to owning Landfill
33, Deibel also
owns Sani-
tation
S.ervice
Inc. (also known
as the Rubbish Gobbler)
and
French
Sanitation
Co.
Sutter
Sanitation is
the
only
garbage
collection
service
in
Effingham
County
not
owned
by
Deibel.