CLERK’S OFFICE

JUN 08

2005

STATE OF ILLINOIS

Pollution Control Board

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June

5,

2005

Attn

IPCB Clerk Dorothy Gunn

Illinois Pollution Control Board,

James Thompson

Center,

100W. Randolph St. STE 11-500

Chicago, IL 60601

Comments concerning Kankakee County Board remand for a re vote on the Kankakee County

Garbage Dump proposal. RE: CASE NUMBER 2004-186

On Wed., May

25, 2005,

Waste Management ofIffinois, Inc. presented the Kankakee County

Board with a new landfill expansion proposal, which is different from the present application now on

appeal with the IPCB.

As aresult ofthis new landfill proposal, the attorney re~,presentingthe County Board and who I

understand is being paid by Waste Management indirectly, directed the County Board to vote to Jile

a stipulation ofremand ofthe present applicationwhich is on appeal with the IPCB. In my opinion

there is clearly no justification for remand and I am askingthe IPCB to deny the County’s

stipulation.

I also request the IPCB to continue the appeal process, which has been going on for nearly a year.

I request that the IPCB help keep the high quality ofour Kankakee Area water supply, our aquatic

life in the Iroquois and Kankakee Rivers and their affected tributaries by upholding the County’s

denial ofthe proposed expansion ofthe existing garbage dump. This proposed expansion would

take place above an all-important shallow aquifer and next to aquality tributary stream feeding the

river less then onehalf-mile away.

These waterways could be subject to serious water quality depreciation ifthis expansion goes

through. It could do much damage to the reproduction andpresence ofmany forms ofaquatic life

that have made our local Iroquois and Kankakee Rivers recognized throughout America astwo of

the nations finest recreational and environmental streams.

I request you make it clear to Waste Management that any new proposal for a landfill

application must follow the 39.2 legislation. This would require an entirely new 172 hearing

process.

Please turn down the Kankakee County Board’s stipulation ofremand.

Sincerely,

Ed Mullacly, Editor

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