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Sincerely,

Carol VanWinkle

9731 W. Lamplighter Lane

Hanna City, IL

RECEIVED

Illinois Pollution Control Board

100 W. Randolph St., Suite 11-500

Chicago, IL 60601

Re: Case # 08 25

Thank you for holding a hearing in Peoria November 6, 2007, regarding the Peoria

Disposal Company (PDC) appeal to declare their facility a generator of its own waste, and

thus exempt from citing authority.

The issue at hand is an attempt to bypass the will of the Community – the County Board

decision – the Illinois Pollution Board decision – to not allow the expansion of the toxic

waste facility, through reinventing themselves to take advantage of a loophole.

This is a toxic waste dump. By any other name, that is still what it is – a toxic waste

dump. Call it a Hazardous Waste Site. It still means the same thing. And the idea that

PDC 'generates' its own waste is ludicrous. They receive toxic waste from over a dozen

other states – some of it the most hazardous types possible – apply a treatment that is

supposed to render it safe to bury (and how many times have you picked up the newspaper

to discover a supposedly 'safe' chemical or drug has been pulled from the market because

it has been found to have dangerous, previously unknown properties?) and bury it above

sand beds connected to our aquifer. And make millions of dollars each year polluting our

environment.

If PDC had taken the money they have spent to force their will upon the State of Illinois –

and make no doubt that is what they are doing – they could have re-located their dump to

an uninhabited location – like a desert – where the lives, health, and welfare of citizens

could not be put in danger. Or put the money toward research for a way to recycle the

waste and make it profitable. But, noon. They want to continue doing business the way

they have over the past 30 years. And would rather spend the money in an effort to force

us to 'live with it'.

How will tens of thousands of people exist without safe water? Peoria County will make

Three-Mile-Island look inconsequential in comparison. The mid-west is the Bread Basket

of the Nation – we grow food that feeds millions of people. It is just not worth the risk to

allow a company to use semantics to force us to accept an unacceptable risk!

I realize the issue you must address is solely that of whether or not PDC generates its own

waste. I firmly believe – regardless of any other consideration – that this attempt is a last-

ditch effort to take advantage of a possible loophole. PDC does NOT generate its own

waste. It makes no separate product that it can sell which, in that production generates

waste. And the only rationale for generating waste is in the production of a product that

can be sold.

Carol VanWinkle