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.iflOis
Pollution
Control
Bd.
Torn
Edwards
c’o
Jon
Therriault
902.
W.
Moss
Ave.
100
W.
Randolph
St.,
Suite
I
l-50()
Peoria,
IL
61605
(Thicago,
IL
60601
Jan.
9,
2009
PDC
Case
AS
08-
I
0
--
Postscript
Comment
I
trust
IPCB’s
decision
in
Case
AS
08-1()
will
leave
means
to
relieve
the
Peoria
metro
aia
of
the
water
air
pollution
of
the
privately
owned
and
run
“hazardous
waste
lndfill”
of
Peoria
Disposal
Co.
Your
decision
is
crucial
to
that
end.
A;
has
been
testified,
PDC’s
landfill
directly
adlacent
to
the
west
side
of
the
City
I:):of.ia
of
and
surrounding
communities
has
a
dense
population
of
at
least
54,000
within
3
miles
of
t1.e
landfill
dumping
ground-—
with
many
housing
tracts
abutting
it.
And
as
has
also
been
testified,
not
oniy
is
Illinois
one
of
just
13
states
that
still
has
an
active
toxic
waste
“landfill,”
it
is
the
oniy
one
with
such
a
landfill
that
1)
sits
immediately
upwind
of
the
air
a
community
must
breathe
as
Peorians
must
--
and
2)
sits
directly
over
--
within
50
feet
--
of
tLe
aquifer
from
most
of
this
area’s
water
comes!
:vt
Illinois’
regulations
do
even
allow
the
IEPA
to
take
location
into
aount
in
such
siting
decisions.
And
this
mountain
of
toxics
has
become
flii.s
region’s
highest
“hill.”
AtzonaIly
it
is
us!
being
realized
that
air
pollutIon
is
tlie
priniarv
culprit
for
the
greater
nber
of
debiittatmg
health
ajfltctions
among
citizens
living
near
a
toxic
waste
laiifill.
s
research
at
New
York
state’s
Univ.
of
Albany
has
ascertained.
(In
the
testimony
this
v,iter
submitted
for
Case
AS
08-10.)
.
new
is
this
that
Illinois
does
not
yet
even
concern
itself
with,
let
alone
monitor
for
aping
toxic
gases
from
PDC’s
hilltop
burial
site
for
highly
toxic
waste.
accorclmg
to
L
head
or
tie
state’s
air
pollution
nhonitorirw
office
here
in
Peoria!
Yet
the
matter
of
this
case,
electric
arc
furnace
(EAF)
steel
mill
dust,
is
loaded
with
a
ho;t
of
volatile
toxics
that
float
off
into
the
air,
as \vefl
as
non—volatile
toxics.
And
PDC
w
nts
to
keel)
trundling
this
into
its
Peoria
landfill
site
to
be
given
a
secret
treatment,h.t
FL.:
works,
ou1d
then
allow
its
transfer
elsewhere.
This
is
highly
specious
at
the
least!
:iat
it
will
definitely
do is
add
to
toxic
air
Pollutants
emanating
into
Peoria
from
PDC.
Fcr
the
health
of
this
region,
PDC’s
toxic
waste
site
needs
to
be
closed
and
sti
ingently
maintained
for
at
the
least
the
30-year
period
law
now
requires.
iJl
crc
are
other
options
for
locations
to
apply
this
“secret”
EAF
treatment,
sii
:h
as
at
the
plants
where
the
steel
is
procluced.Then
it
could
go
anywhere.
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