Landfills: Waste Accepted 2006; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2007
__Waste Rec’d._ ___Capacity____ Disp. Area Close
Municipality County Cu. Yds. Rank 1 Cu. Yds. Rank 2 Acres Year
Bond County Landfill Inc. * 3 Greenville Bond 223,614 35 7,707,000 25 63 2041
Cottonwood Hills RDF * 4 Marissa St. Clair 1,832,050 10 96,975,000 3 206 2060
Milam Recyc. and Disp. Facility * 5 East St. Louis St. Clair 2,849,648 6 13,585,000 20 176 2011
Roxana Landfill Inc. * 6 Roxana Madison 3,850,372 3 39,239,000 9 204.8 2017
Salem Municipal Landfill #2 7 Salem Marion 84,393 44 193,000 46 22 2009
Totals 8,840,077 157,699,000
* Four landfills accepted out-of-state waste from Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky and Missouri during 2006 totaling 5,009,720 gate
cubic yards, or 56.7% of the region’s total.
1 Standing among 49 landfills that accepted waste during 2006.
2 Standing among 48 landfills that reported capacity as of Jan. 1, 2007.
3 Mod. #20 opened Phase IIIB (4.3 ac.) on 1-21-05. Mod. #26 opened a side slope cell (1.2 ac.) on 4-20-06.
4 Phase 3 Northwest (4.32 ac.) and all of Phase I East slope was open by 12-16-04. Phase 3 southwest (4.2 ac.) opened on
9-23-05. Phase 2 Northwest (4.3 ac.) opened on 8-30-06. Phase 2 Southwest (4.9 ac.) approved on 7-19-07.
5 Phase IV Northeast expansion approved on 1-26-04. Phase V Northwest approved on 1-5-05. Phase V North was approved on
4-19-06. Phase 5 (3.9 ac.) and Phase 4A (0.6 ac.) approved on 2-15-06.
6 New modules 9A (5 ac.), 10A North & South (1.8 ac.) and 11A (5.1 ac.) approved in 2004. Vertical expansion (20.5 million air-space
cu. yds.) and horizontal expansion (99.49 ac.) approved on 6-6-05. Cells 2A & 3A (10 ac.) approved on 5-18-06 to operate.
Cells 2B and 3B (4.5 ac.) approved to operate on 1-31-07.
7 Phase II West half (1.3 ac.) approved to operate on 10-4-04. Phase 3 Southern part (1.3 ac.) approved to operate on 12-29-05.
Region Six Solid Waste
Statistics
Counties 9
Area (square miles) 5,061
Population (est.) 717,833
Landfill life expectancy
Years remaining 18 *
Landfills
Active in 2006 5
Transfer Stations
Active in 2006 5
Compost facilities
Active in 2006 6
*Total remaining capacity (from table below)
divided by total waste accepted. Tells how long
the region may be served by local landfills at
current disposal rates, barring capacity
adjustments, until capacity is depleted.
Expansion permits are approved at two landfills
The Illinois EPA approved on Jan. 26, 2004 at the Milam RDF, East
St. Louis, its Phase IV Northeast expansion; and Phase V Northwest
area changes received approval on Jan. 5, 2005. Phase V North was
approved on Apr. 19, 2006. Phase 5 (3.9 ac.) and Phase 4A (0.6 ac.)
was approved on Feb. 15, 2006.
On June 6, 2005, at Roxana Landfill Authority, Roxana, a 99.49
acre horizontal and a 20.5 million cubic yards airspace vertical
expansion received Illinois EPA approval. Additionally, Cells 2A
and 3A (10 ac.) were approved on May 18, 2006. Cells 2B and 3B
(4.5 ac.) were approved on Jan. 31, 2007.
Construction of new cells permitted at all five landfills
All five landfills applied for and received permits to construct new
cells or areas during 2004 to early 2006. More details about all these
developments are found below and on the landfill specification
pages that follow this regional overview.
Granite City’s landfill closed in 2004
South Chain of Rocks RDF, Granite City, ceased accepting waste on
July 23, 2004, and closure certification was approved by the
Agency’s Bureau of Land Permit Section on June 22, 2005.
R6.2 Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
