5007 haMma

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Peoria,007~ IL 61614

JOIN IN SOLIDARITY

Peoria Disposal Co . has appealed to Illinois Pollution Control Board to overturn the Peoria

County Boards' 12 to 6 decision to deny expansion of its' hazardous toxic waste land landfill

.

The IPCB is to hand down its' decision on Mav 17, 2007

. This date could be changed . -n,jj

RIGHT NOW take advantage of this once in a lifetime

`Golden Opportunity' to speak out for a

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righteous cause. At stake is pollution of our water, air, and earth . Our

health is more precious

than gold!!! Hafting of this can have far reaching rippling effects and be a major dynamic

catalyst for pioneering technological changes for this city, our environment, indu

E C E 1 V E D

government, this nation and the global world at large

. Help mankind from furtherin & i daEFICE

self -destruction .

FEB 2 3 2007

RIGHT NOW as a New Year priority and gift to global humanity, yourself and

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step up to the plate, uphold our well being, and speak out by writing

. Let your h afl

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hearts' mind together move you into action .

LET THE COMMUNITY VOICE RING IN THE

NEW, thank you.

WRITE a sentence or more in support of the Peoria County Board's decision against massive

incoming dangers to this area from the hazardous landfill dump taking perhaps 15 minx

.. Toxic

waste and toxic chemicals are a huge global challenge

. Write, and then sign with your address

and MAIL

Illinois Pollution Control B

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Randolph St, Suite 11-500, Chicago, IL 60601 Postmarked by Apr

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To Whom This Concerns :

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sent the above letter, the

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u ' its toxic waste

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landfill here

. That vote followed the largest and longest (6 days) public hearing in area history

.

PDC is appealing the county's permit denial to the Illinois

Pollution Control Board. The

IPCB hearing on the case was January 8, and it will accept citizen comment letters

though April 6!

Let

the

IPCB know

your views,

The letters will be posted on the

IPCB's web site . Yours will count . The address is :

Illinois Pollution Control Board, Clerk's Office, Case 2006-184

L100 W. Randolph St ., Suite 11-500, Chicago, IL 60601

(Letters only. E-mails not accepted)

Also, write or fax the

Journal Star.

The Situation

:

PDC's proposed expansion would triple the volume of its toxic waste landfill, adding 2.2 million tons to

40 acres on the top of its hilltop landfill -- already much higher than originally due to years of dumping . It

would make that hill another 45 feet higher at least (5 stories), a superdome of toxic waste considerably

higher than any other hill in the area, and covering an area greater than Bradley U's campus . Its contents,

from 15 states so far, would be encased in manmade sidewalls of dirt lined with plastic membrane and -

acked down by bulldozers . Hardly a leakproof scenario.

PDC's is the only remaining commercial

haaardous waste landfill from Indianapolis to the Rocky Mts . in the

nation's upper half. Such waste from a dozen states is regularly brought here . PDC has been operating

since 1940, but state toxic waste regulations didn't begin until 1987. And:

**The dump site sits above the shallow sand-gravel aquifer from which most of the Peoria area water supplyy

is drawn. Yet PDC's Illinois EPA permit allows843

of the nation's most toxic chemicals to be put there --

but requires just quarterly tests for only 20 --

with PDC designating the day for EPA to take test samples .

**This landfill has vents for

gaseous emissions

and is immediately upwind of Peoria . But there is nna testing

for air pollution, though research has revealed it to be a major health issue around such landfills elsewhere

.

The federal "toxic release inventory" for Peoria County is by far the highest in Illinois, 4 times more than

Cook County's (Chicago), and 16th in the nation, according to the 2002 USEPA report

. It lists the PDC

toxic waste landfill as releasing 21 times more than any other area source .

Thislandfill is a "forever" hazard . . Weneed_toclose it now with strictly enforced

perpetual safeguards,

Tom Edwards, River Rescue, 902 W . Moss Ave, Peoria,ll 61606