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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-

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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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