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From
Tom
Edwards
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2008
Case
N’o
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08-10
902
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OF
(2nd
statement
from
wri
tei.)
Peoria,
IL
61606
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(fJNOis
August
28,
2008
B0td
Pecria
Disposal
Co ‘s
New
Plov to
Stvnue
Closure
Svnop’is
-- PDC
wants
up to
g5,000
cubic
yards
per year
of
electric arc
steel mill
furnace
wastes
loaded
with
toxics
from
throughout
the
Midwest
to
be delivered
initially
to
Its
hazardous
waste
landtill
in
Peoria
And then,
via a qualified
okay by
illinois
EPA, PDC
would
attempt
to
detoxify
these
wastes
by
a
“private,
secret”
method,
then
reload
them
onto
trucks
and
deliver
them
to
a regular
municipal
trash
landfill
p_ose
expensive
as
it
is
is to
prevent
having
to
finish
filling
and closing
its
Peoria
landfill,
and
meet
stiff
1osure
regulations
Local
envuonmentalists
are
appealing
EPA’s
closed
door
decision
lis
“secret”
Star
Chamber
procedure
was
outlandish,
and
iii
violati
of all
open
meeting
protocols
The
EPA
decision
does
not
mean
that
these
furnace
residues
will
be
made
clean,
only
that
their
welter
of
toxic
materials
would
be
somehow
‘reduced”
in
toxic
impact,
at
least
for
a time, to
what might
be
“safe?’
at
the
moment
This
would apply
only
to
14
so-
called
“non-volatile
heavy
metals”
reported
present,
including
highly
toxic
mercury,
lead,
and
cadmium
But
it
would
it
apply
to the
array of
“volatde”
toxic
chemicals
in
these
wastes,
which
dissipate
into our
air,
such
as poisonous
dioxin
and
turans
Discussion
What
is
the sanity
let
alone
clti7en
health and
safety
benefit
in
PDC’s
latest
attempt
to
stymie
closuie
of
its
Peoria
toxic
waste
landfill
by
expensively
shunting
its toxic
laden
steel mill
waste
elsewhere
after going
through
an
uncertain,
and
also
expensive
process,
to at
least
temporarily
immobilize
most of
the
toxics
arriving
in
the steel
mill
waste
The
toxics,
still
there,
likely
dissipate
elsewhere
later
PDC
says
at least
10 steel
mills
would be
trucking
their
waste some
hundreds
of
miles
to
‘unload
it
at
PtC’
s
landtill
in
Peoria
so that
its
toxicity
Cdli,
hopefully,
be
“reduced”
and
so it
can then
be
re-trucked
to
one or
more
regular
city-county
landfills
The
mills
could
he
doing
that
tight at
their
own facilities
PDC
wants
to
keep
its reinairung
space
open in
its
dangerously
located
Peoria
landfill
so
that nether
Peoria
County nor
the Illinois
EPA
can
legally
close
it
That
was
the
message
delivered
by
PDC’s
attorney
at
IPCB ‘s
public
hearing
August
18
The
IEPA
has
so far given
a
qualified
okay to
tins
maneuver
But
environmentalists
are
appealing
this
decision
to
the Illinois
Pollution
Control
Board
The
JEPA
states
(Part
II, Sect
104
406,
JEPA
Filing.
6/12/08]
that
POC’s
“electric
arc
furnace
dust
will
ike1v
meet
the
required”
lower
level
of milligrams
per
liter
of
waste
after
its
secret
treatment
But
that
is far
from
removal,
And
“likely”
also
means
maybe
Moreover,
PEC
in its
April
25, 2002,
petition
to
the
IPC]3, claims
(bottom,
page
2)
that
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has
secret
“new
proprietary
stabilization
technology”
for
“K061
electric
arc
furnace
dust”
that
will
(top,
page
3) render
it
“stabilized” enough “to
meet
applicable
land
disposal
restrictions”
PDC
does
not
claim
any
removal
of
the
toxic
metals
in
the
dust
by
the
piocess,
or how
long
they
would
be
held
in
check
Most
steel
mills
have
nieans
to
deal
on
site
with
the
toxicity
of
their
wastes
Perhaps
it
could
be
less
expensive to ship
it elsewhere
to
detoxify
it
But
probably
the
mam
reasop
for
shipping
it
away
is that
the
mills
want
to shed
themselves
of
the
liability
and
responsibility
of
dealrn&
with
the
toxics
in
their
wastes
and
so divest
themselves
of
that
liability_by
trucking
their
waste
to
Peoria
and
ping PDC
to
landfill it
For
PDC,
which
now
has
30
other
operations dealing
with
waste,
to dose
its first
one
--
after
78
years
of
dumping
on
its
site,
but
under
state
regulations
only
for
the
last
21
years
-- could
entail
a
hugely
expensive
longterm
remedjation
effort,
a
frightening
postclosure
prospect
And
PDC
has
apparently spent
into
the millions
in
recent
years
to
tI.y
to
circumvent
this
closure
Peihaps
the
company is afraid
of
what
will
be
discovered
or
transpire
after
it is
closed
[Note
This
writer
has
long
urged
a
means
whereby
the
state
and
federal
EPAs
could
share
with
PDC
in
this
daunting
prospect
I
Rather,
PDC
could
be
plowing
its
profits
into
healthier
channels,
both
for
itself
and
certainly
for
society
At
present
PDC
leaves
various
types
of
its
toxic
waste
sitting
“out
to
cure”
before
putting
them
in its
“landfill”
to
eventually
be
covered
with
soil
Volatile
chemicals
certainly
are
venting
off
into
the
air
while
sitting,
perhaps
for
long
periods, outside
the
landfill,
or
in
For
PDC,
this
gets
rid
of
such
chemicals
--
but into
the
air
that
local
people
must
breathe
This
may
be the
ultimate
fate
of
mush
of
the
up
to
95,000
cubic
yards
per
year
of
steel
mill
wastes
PDC
says
it
intends
to detoxify
and
then
re-transport
to
local
municipal
dumps
Stacked
vertically, 95,000
cubic
yards
would
be54
miles
high
There
are
certainly
vastly
superior
alternatives,
and
for
the
sake
of our
planet,
we
had
better
start
finding
and
using
them
Only
nuclear
waste
is
more
hazardous
than
toxic
waste
landfills
And
we
need
to
keep
high
in
our
minds
that
PDCs moimtain
of
poisonous
toxic
waste
sits
as
close
as
50
feet
above
the
Peoria
area’s
main
water
supply
aquifer,
and
immediately
upwind
of
the
air
Peorians
must
breathe
It
is
the
only
still
operating such
facthty
an
the
nation
in
such
a
perilous
location
to
people
We are
also
alei
ted
that
the
PDC
camp
will
try
getting
EPA
approval
to
achieve-
compliance by simply
adding
soil
to “dilute”
the
toxicity
of the
waste
so
it
can
be
taken
to
regular
landfills
It
has
tried
this before
If
Illinois
is to
have
a
toxic
waste
landfill
for
it
and
other
states
to
use,
then
the
state
must
be
the
site
owner,
put
it
in
the
satest
location
possible,
and
all
foices
combine
to
make
it
the
best
such
facility
of
this
kind
The
PDC
mattei
is an
elephant
in
our
living
room
that
political office
holders
and
seekers
are
afraid
to
even
acknowledge
The
IEPA
decision needs
to be
summarily
dismissed
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