JOIN IN SOLIDARITY

Peoria Disposal Co

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

.

The IPCB is to handdown its'decision on May17, 2007

. ,This date could be changed.

RIGHT NOW

take advantage of this once in a lifetime

`Golden Opportunity' to speak out for a

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

. Our health is more precious

than gold!!!

Halting of this can have far reaching rippling effects and be a major dynamic

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

government, this nation and the global world at large

. Help mankind from furthering self- made

self -destruction

.

RIGHT NOW

as a New Year priority and gift to global humanity, yourself and your loved ones

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

. Let your heads' mind and

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 mins

. . Toxic

waste and toxic chemicals are a huge global challenge

. Write, and then sign with your address

and MAIL TO : Illinois Pollution Control Board,

Clerk's Office, Case PCB 2006-184, 100 W .

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

. 6, only letters accepted for

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airwe breathe. Yet there is no Air pollution

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testing and this factor is being ignored by

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of a couple million tons of a huge assortment 'this was We are going to

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of terribly toxic chemicals in the belief that'

dinosaurs. Of the billions we spend on space

a plastic liner will forever prevent them from

programs, we must spend as nmch, indeed,

leaking Into the aquifer, from which over half

even far more on caring for and preserving

of

the Peoria area's tap water is pumped .

our space ship Earth. We have to find ways

PDC's toxic waste landfill sits right over that

. to detoxify and recycle all such waste. it is

precious groundwater supply Plastic breaks

insanity

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Moreover, it Is the only hazardous waste land-

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- rEORIA REK NTS I

To Whom This Concerns :

r months after renown conservationist Bill Rutherford, who died Nov

. 21, sent the above letter, the

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Peoria County Board voted 12 to 6 not to grant a permit to Peoria Disposal Co

. to expand its toxic waste

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 :

f

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

100 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 hazardous 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 supply

is drawn

. Yet PDC's Illinois EPA permit allows 843

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 no

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

.

Thia landfill is a "forever" hazard .

We need to close it now with strictly enforced

perpetual safeguards,

Tom Edwards,

River Rescue, 902 W . Moss Ave, Peoria,n 61606