RECEEVED

ILLiNOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

CLERK’S

opFr~

November7, 2002

LANDFILL 33, LTD.,

)

JI~N

Z005

)

STATE OF ILLINOIS

Petitioner,

)

Pollution

Control Board

)

vs.

)

No. PCB 03-43

)

(Third-Party Pollution Control

)

Facility Siting Appeal)

EFFINGHAM COUNTY BOARD

and

)

SUTTER SANITATION SERVICES,

)

Respondents.

)

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

rlispute

between

~Sutter

Sanitation and two busluesses that have challenged

Sutter’s

right

~ develop

a tran~far

station in southwest

Efflngham County.

Landfill 33 inc. of

Effingham

arid Stack & Co.,

LLC3

of TaylorviHe

have

diallengad

Sutter’s

efftrt

develop the

transfer çtatiqn

the

old

Quandt

Grain

Elevator an

the

ParinafAibmont

blacktop~

about

seven

miles

south

Altamont

The Efflngham

Coun:y

Board

approved the siting

permit

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.

When originally applying for tha permit to

build the transfer station, Suttar

Sanitation

owner Tracy

SLitter

said the

owri~r

of Landfill 3~

had made it

clear

that

Sutter

Sanitation

~ot welcome to

dump-

garbage

at Laoidl9ll

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

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

be hauled

away.

PCS

hearing

officerBradley

Halloran

conductedthe

appeal

hearing

Thursday

in the

E1’finghem

Cointy

Board

room. Appeals

from

both Landfill

and

Stock

were

consolidated

into

one

hearinq,

Public comment will be con~icli~red

by the PCB if

postmarked by Jan.

Attorneys

for

both

Sides

must

~liepost~henringbriefs by Jan.

10. ~eplIesto

those

bri~1s

must be

flied

J;~ri.

17.

Halloran

said the PC8 will make its

decision when It meets

Feb.

Chicago,

Haitoran said transcripts of

thE

hearing will be available

Dec

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,

well

from

Tra;y Sutter

Sutt~rSanitation and

Duane Stock

of Stock

& Co.

Landfill

representatives did

i~tOt

testify

Thursday.

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

had

been

hampered

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

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

county board committee visited

his

recycling operation soon after

ib opened

March,

though he couldn’t

rememberthe exact date.

c id say it was

before he filed his application

a transfer

station

April 1~,

Also

testIfying Thursday

was Nancy

Daters

cit

rural

Cuniberland County,

who said It

was

her opinion that Landfill 33~

opposition was

“personal

vendetta” against Suffer, who

has

claimed Landfill 33 has

banned

him

from

thimping trash at its facility on the southeast edge

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

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

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

not barred from

using

Landfill

33.

Deibel said

Sutter

those to

step using

Landfill

after a

disagreement over

a load Inciuding

potentially

ha;~ardousmaterials sever~Iyears ago.

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they conduct them~elvas~na proper business manner,”

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

Sanitation

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garbage

ollection service

1cm

Cffingham

r~unty

riot

owned

Detbel.

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