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              Illinois Bureau of Land October 2003
Environmental 1021 North Grand Avenue East
Protection Agency P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
IEPA/BOL/03-014
Nonhazardous Solid Waste
Management and Landfill
Capacity in Illinois
Printed on recycled paper
2002 Annual
Report
Topics Covered
¢ Waste disposed in landfills,
2000-2002
¢ Remaining disposal capacity
as of Jan. 1, 2002 and Jan. 1,
2003
¢ Specification pages for 57
landfills, 99 transfer stations and
54 compost sites
¢ Waste generated and recycled,
2002
¢ Waste handled by transfer
stations, 2000-2002
¢ Waste composted,
2000-2002
Nonhazardous
Solid Waste Management
And Landfill Capacity
In Illinois: 2002
Reporting period for waste disposal: Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2002
Reporting date for landfill capacity: Jan. 1, 2003
This report has been prepared for the Governor of the State of Illinois and the General Assembly
in accordance with Section 4 of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act.
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Bureau of Land
Division of Land Pollution Control
Waste Reduction and Compliance Section
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
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How to Obtain Additional Information
To learn more about municipal solid waste landfills, transfer
stations or compost facilitie s in Illinois, please call 217-785-
8604, or write to:
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Division of Land Pollution Control
Bureau of Land
Waste Reduction and Compliance Section
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
Our Internet address is http://www.epa.state.il.us
When using courier services (UPS, Airborne, etc.), please use
the following street address and zip code:
1021 North Grand Avenue East
Springfield, IL 62702
Acknowledgements
This document is produced by the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency, Renee Cipriano, Director, and is published
by the Agency’s Office of Public Information, Dennis
McMurray, Manager. Primary Editor was Ellen Robinson of the
Waste Reduction and Compliance Section.
The report is printed in the Agency’s print shop. Many thanks to
Tom Davis and Rusty Downs who provided publishing advice
to the Primary Editor. Gary Steele provided editing. Excellent
typing and design was provided by Judy Brubaker, the Section’s
clerical support. Photos were chosen by David Gambach, Ellen
Robinson, Gary Steele and Robert Wiatrolik. Full length, fold-out
State of Illinois and Chicago Metropolitan area maps using
GIS software, were designed by Ted Prescott.
Illinois EPA Bureau of Land personnel contributed their time
and expertise to the development of this publication. Computer
data calculation was provided by Darrel Watkins, ensuring
better data accuracy throughout the report. Assistance with
compost site permitting and inspecting was provided by Gary
Cima and Gary Steele. Neelu Reddy and Jody Kershaw of the
Remedial Project Management Section provided information
about our abandoned landfill program. Jim Moore explained
closure procedures for landfills.
The Agency also wishes to thank the 18 delegated counties, plus
Ambraw Valley Solid Waste Agency and the City of Chicago
who inspect and have first-hand knowledge of approximately 50
percent of the landfills, transfer stations and compost sites
covered in this report. Our seven regional offices and their
regional managers are responsible for inspecting all Agency-permitted
pollution control facilities.
Additional Information and Acknowledgements
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002 v iii
Cover Photo: Photo of Livingston Landfill, Pontiac, provided by Michael Friend, R. Russell and Associates,
Pontiac and edited by Barbara Nowack of Andrews Environmental Engineering, Springfield
Region 1: Photo of Onyx Orchard Hills, Davis Junction, provided by Joy Bliton, Inspector, Ogle County
Solid Waste Management Department, Oregon
Region 2: Photo of McHenry County Sanitary Landfill, Crystal Lake, taken by Thomas Rivera,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, DesPlaines
Regional Office
Region 3: Photo of Peoria City/County Landfill #2, Brimfield, by John Tripses, Regional Manager, Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency, Peoria Regional Office
Region 4: Photo of Landfill 33 Ltd., Effingham, by Deanna Carlock, Environmental Protection Specialist,
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Champaign Regional Office
Region 5: Photo of Litchfield-Hillsboro Landfill, Litchfield, by Bill Gonet, Inspector, Montgomery County
Coordinated Services Office, Hillsboro
Region 6: Photo of Milam RDF, East St. Louis, by Chuck Schaeffer, Environmental Protection Program
Specialist, St. Clair County Health Department, Belleville
Region 7: Photo of Southern Illinois Regional Landfill, DeSoto, by Bart Hagston, Solid Waste Coordinator,
Jackson County Health Department, Murphysboro
Landfills
Appendices A-D: Photo of Laraway Recycling and Disposal Facility, Elwood, by David Hartke, Environmental
Enforcement Officer, Will County Land Use Department, Waste Services Division, Joliet
Transfer Stations
Appendices E-G: Photo of Marion Transfer Station, Marion, by Sheila Williams, Environmental Protection
Specialist, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Marion Regional Office
Compost Sites
Appendices H-J: Photo of Land and Lake #5 Compost Facility, Deerfield, by Ralph Pergams, Environmental
Protection Specialist, Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center,
Waukegan
Solid Waste Planning & Recycling
Appendices K-M: Photo of ribbon cutting at new “Recycled” Playground at Holy Family School, Granite City, by
Ann Linenfelser, Recycling Education Coordinator, Madison County Planning & Development
Department, Edwardsville
Photo Credits
ivv Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002
Although the capacity remaining in Illinois landfills
declined slightly, the available space is still adequate and
should serve our citizens for at least another 13 years. In
this, the Agency’s 16th annual report on landfill disposal and
available landfill capacity in Illinois, we report to you not only the
remaining capacity, but many other useful facts about landfills
and pollution control facilities throughout the state.
Since its inception in 1970, the Illinois EPA has overseen the
development and operation of a productive system of modern
sanitary landfills. The Agency continues to ensure that these
facilities meet the strictest disposal standards in history, and that
they are engineered to be fully protective of human health and the
environment, especially where it concerns any possibility of
groundwater contamination.
In 2002, the number of active landfills in Illinois accepting waste
was 51. Regional capacity, however, varied tremendously. The
Chicago Metropolitan Region had only five years of landfill
capacity remaining at the end of 2002 and Region 3, which
includes Peoria and the Quad Cities, had about 44 remaining
years.
New capacity is available in Southern Illinois at West End
Disposal Facility, which opened for business in late 200 2. Some
remaining landfills (Landfill 33, Effingham and ERC/Coles
County Landfill, Charleston) constructed expansions in 2002; in
both cases there was sufficient acreage availa ble through previous
local siting approval. Roxana Landfill Authority, Roxana and
Southern Illinois Regional Landfill, DeSoto opened new cells,
areas or phases for waste disposal.
In 2002, there were additionally 86 active transfer stations and 40
active compost facilities to help manage the waste generated in
Illinois.
The State of Illinois, seeking to avoid potential crises, asked all
Illinois counties to adopt and update at the five, ten and fifteen
year point well-conceived plans to accommodate their future
waste disposal needs.
Additionally, the Illinois EPA’s seven regional offices and 18
counties, the Ambraw Valley Solid Waste Agency and the City of
Chicago have been delegated the authority to inspect landfills,
transfer stations and compost sites in their jurisdictions, providing
a needed service to the citizens of Illinois.
The Illinois EPA hopes you will find this information useful and
instructive and welcomes your comments and suggestions as to
how it may be improved.
Renee Cipriano
Director
Illinois EPA
Preface
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002 v v
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in
Illinois is Illinois EPA’s annual report describing the management
of nonhazardous municipal solid waste by the State’s solid waste
landfills, transfer stations and compost facilities. The report is
divided into sections representing Illinois EPA’s administrative
regions. Region 1 includes Northwestern Illinois counties; Region 2
includes Chicago Metropolitan counties; Region 3 includes Peoria/
Quad Cities area counties; Region 4 includes East Central Illinois
counties; Region 5 includes West Central Illinois counties; Region
6 includes Metropolitan East St. Louis area counties; and Region 7
includes Southern Illinois counties.
Each regional section includes newly designed specification pages
describing the chief physical characteristics of each landfill.
Provided are: its location and hours of operation, tipping fee, quantities of wastes received for the last three
years, the landfill’s certified remaining capacity (in gate cubic yards) for the last two reporting dates, solid
waste management fees paid in 2002, the Agency regional field office or delegated local authority that
inspects the facility, and the name, address and phone number of the landfill’s owner and operator. Similar
but scaled down specification pages are included for each transfer station. In all, this report includes details
of 57 landfills, 99 transfer stations and 54 compost facilities. Those sites included accepted some waste in
2000, 2001 and/or 2002.
Landfill details are found in Appendices A through D; transfer station details are found in Appendices E
through G; landscape waste compost facility information is found in Appendices H through J; the contact
list for local (county) solid waste planning and recycling coordinators is found in Appendix K; in Appendix
L information is found about updated local (county) solid waste plans; and found in Appendix M is
information about local municipal waste generation and recycling.
Additionally, this 16th edition of the report contains a state map designed with GIS software showing
locations of Illinois landfills. A Chicago Metropolitan area map also shows the locations of transfer stations
in addition to the location of landfills.
How to Use Illinois EPA’s Landfill Capacity Report
viv Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002
Additional Information and Acknowledgements ............................................................................................ iii
Photo Credits ................................................................................................................................................ iv
Preface...........................................................................................................................................................v
How to Use Illinois EPA’s Landfill Capacity Report ...................................................................................... vi
Tables ..........................................................................................................................................................viii
Executive Summary...................................................................................................................................... xi
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................1
Maps ............................................................................................................................................................17
Region One: Northwestern Illinois ............................................................................................................R1.1
Region Two: Chicago Metropolitan ..........................................................................................................R2.1
Region Three: Peoria/Quad Cities ..........................................................................................................R3.1
Region Four: East Central Illinois .............................................................................................................R4.1
Region Five: West Central Illinois ............................................................................................................R5.1
Region Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis ...................................................................................................R6.1
Region Seven: Southern Illinois ...............................................................................................................R7.1
Appendix A: Solid Waste Landfill’s Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by Facility ................................... A1
Appendix B: Solid Waste Landfill’s Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by County................................... B1
Appendix C: Solid Waste Landfills Ranked by Wastes Received: 2002 ....................................................C1
Appendix D: Solid Waste Landfills Ranked by Remaining Capacities; as of Jan. 1, 2003 ........................D1
Appendix E: Solid Waste Transfer Station Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by Facility ....................... E1
Appendix F: Solid Waste Transfer Station Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by County ........................F1
Appendix G: Solid Waste Transfer Stations Ranked by Wastes Received: 2002......................................G1
Appendix H: Landscape Waste Compost Facility Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by Facility ............H1
Appendix I: Landscape Waste Compost Facility Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by County ..............I1
Appendix J: Landscape Waste Compost Facilities Ranked by Wastes Received: 2002...........................J1
Appendix K: Contact List for Solid Waste Planning and Recycling: Alphabetic by County ....................... K1
Appendix L: Adoption Dates and Updates of Solid Waste Management Plans:
Alphabetic by County...............................................................................................................L1
Appendix M: Municipal Waste Generation and Recycling: Alphabetic by County......................................M1
Contents
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002 v vii
USA’s Top Waste Management Companies: 2002 .......................................................................................2
National Figures for 2001 Reported by USEPA.............................................................................................4
State of Origin of Wastes Received at Illinois Landfills in 2002 ....................................................................5
Illinois Landfills: Wastes Accepted in 2002 Versus 2001 ..............................................................................5
Illinois Landfills: Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003 Versus Jan. 1, 2002 ...................................................6
Wastes Disposed and Landfill Capacity Per Capita; Landfill Life Expectancy..............................................6
New Facilities Permitted to be Developed or Constructed ............................................................................7
Statewide Landfill Capacity Is Abundant Despite Same Number of Facilities ..............................................7
Municipal Waste Management in Illinois: 2002..............................................................................................8
Municipal Wastes Generated & Recycled......................................................................................................9
Compost Facilities: Wastes Handled 2002 ..................................................................................................10
Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 2002 ....................................................................................................11
Local Agencies Delegated to Inspect Pollution Control Facilities for the Illinois EPA (map) ......................17
Illinois Landfills, 2002 (map).........................................................................................................................19
Landfills: Active, Closed, Under Development in 2002 (map) .....................................................................21
Landfills Receiving Waste from Other States in 2002 (map).......................................................................23
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Administrative Regions (map)....................................................25
Region One: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2002 (map depicting capacity gains or losses)............R1.1
Region One: Landfills: Wastes Accepted 2002; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003.............................R1.2
Region One: Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 2002...........................................................................R1.3
Region One: Compost Facilities: Wastes Accepted 2002.......................................................................R1.4
Region One: Municipal Wastes Recycled................................................................................................R1.4
Region Two: Chicago Metro Area Landfills and Transfer Stations 2002 (map)......................................R2.0
Region Two: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2002 (map depicting capacity gains or losses)............R2.3
Region Two: Landfills: Wastes Accepted 2002; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003.............................R2.4
Region Two: Solid Waste Statistics .........................................................................................................R2.4
Region Two: Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 2002...........................................................................R2.6
Region Two: Compost Facilities: Wastes Accepted 2002 .......................................................................R2.7
Region Two: Cook County’s Inactive Compost Sites ..............................................................................R2.7
Region Two: Municipal Wastes Recycled................................................................................................R2.8
Region Three: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2002 (map depicting capacity gains or losses).........R3.1
Region Three: Landfills: Wastes Accepted 2002; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003 ..........................R3.2
Region Three: Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 2002 ........................................................................R3.3
Region Three: Compost Facilities: Wastes Accepted 2002 ....................................................................R3.4
Region Three: Municipal Wastes Recycled .............................................................................................R3.4
Region Four: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2002 (map depicting capacity gains or losses) ...........R4.1
Region Four: Landfills: Wastes Accepted 2002; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003............................R4.2
Region Four: Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 2002 ..........................................................................R4.3
Region Four: Compost Facilities: Wastes Accepted 2002 ......................................................................R4.3
Region Four: Municipal Wastes Recycled ...............................................................................................R4.4
Maps and Tables
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Region Five: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2002 (map depicting capacity gains or losses)............R5.1
Region Five: Landfills: Wastes Accepted 2002; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003.............................R5.2
Region Five: Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 2002...........................................................................R5.3
Region Five: Compost Facilities: Wastes Accepted 2002 .......................................................................R5.3
Region Five: Municipal Wastes Recycled................................................................................................R5.4
Region Six: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2002 (map depicting capacity gains or losses)..............R6.1
Region Six: Landfills: Wastes Accepted 2002; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003 ..............................R6.2
Region Six: Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 2002.............................................................................R6.3
Region Six: Compost Facilities: Wastes Accepted 2002.........................................................................R6.4
Region Six: Municipal Wastes Recycled..................................................................................................R6.4
Region Seven: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2002 (map depicting capacity gains or losses) ........R7.1
Region Seven: Landfills: Wastes Accepted 2002; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003 .........................R7.2
Region Seven: Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 2002 .......................................................................R7.3
Region Seven: Compost Facilities: Wastes Accepted 2002....................................................................R7.3
Region Seven: Municipal Wastes Recycled ............................................................................................R7.4
Tables
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THIS IS THE ILLINOIS EPA’S 16TH ANNUAL REPORT describing
the management of nonhazardous municipal solid waste
by the state’s solid waste landfills, transfer stations and
compost facilities.
The report is divided into sections representing Illinois EPA
administrative regions. Each regional section includes
specification pages describing the chief physical characteristics
of each landfill.
Provided in this report are each facility’s location and hours of
operation, tipping fee, quantities of wastes received for the last
three years (2000, 2001 and 2002), in both gate cubic yards and
gate tons; the landfill’s certified remaining capacity for the last
two reporting dates Jan. 1, 2003 and Jan. 1, 2002, in gate cubic
yards; solid waste management fees paid to the State in 2002;
the Agency Regional office or delegated local authority that
inspects the facility; and the name, address and phone number
of the landfill’s owner and operator.
Similar but scaled down specification pages are included for
each transfer station and compost facility. In all, this report
includes details of 57 landfills, 99 transfer stations and 54
compost facilities. Any landfill, transfer station or compost site
that accepted waste in 2000, 2001 and/or 2002 is included in the
report. The list of active pollution control facilities during 2002
includes 51 landfills, 86 transfer stations and 40 compost sites.
Illinois municipal solid waste landfills are required to report to
the Illinois EPA the quantities of solid waste they receive each
year, and to calculate and report the amount of remaining
capacity on the first day of the following year.
During 2002, 51 landfills reported receiving a total of 54.6
million gate cubic yards almost (16.6 million gate tons) of
waste. This volume was two million gate cubic yards more than
the total received during 2001, a 3.8 percent increase.
As of January 1, 2003, 51 landfills reported having a combined
remaining capacity of 700.9 million gate cubic yards (almost
212.4 million tons), or 16.8 million gate cubic yards less than
on January 1, 2002, a slight reduction of 2.3 percent.
Dividing wastes disposed during 2002 by capacity remaining on
January 1, 2003, indicates an overall landfill life expectancy in
Illinois of 13 years, at 2002 disposal rates and barring capacity
adjustments.
Areas to watch and monitor are the Chicago Metropolitan Area
and East Central Illinois area with five and six years of capacity
remaining.
Executive Summary
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002 v xi
Nonhazardous
Solid Waste Management
And Landfill Capacity
2002
Introduction
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE
the garbage discarded by America’s households, stores,
offices, factories, restaurants, schools and other
institutions. “Discarded” most often in Illinois means disposed of in
Agency-permitted landfills. Waste is also handled through other
alternative means of solid waste management: recycling and
composting, after it is collected.
The U.S. EPA’s Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 2000
Facts & Figures says that nationwide 55.3 percent of solid waste
was landfilled, 30.1 percent was recycled or composted and 14.5
percent was incinerated. National figures for 2002 were not yet
published when this report was printed.
In 2002, Illinois landfills accepted more than 54.7 million gate cubic
yards of solid waste. Most Illinois waste was discarded in landfills
within our borders. Wastes entering or leaving Illinois are not
believed to noticeably affect this equation. Of all solid waste
landfilled in Illinois in 2002, 10 percent, or about 5.8 million cubic
yards or 1.8 million tons, came from 12 other states. We know this
because Illinois landfills have reported these quantities to the
Illinois EPA since 1992. However, waste haulers are not required to
report how much Illinois waste they transport to landfills in other
states or from which counties in Illinois waste is transported. Some
local solid waste coordinators may have this information. Their
contact information is found in Appendix K, of this report.
Almost 25 percent of municipal waste is recycled
Much of Illinois is rural and far from recycling markets. However,
most local governments have attempted to continue recycling
education efforts, and to collect recycling data from haulers as a
necessary public service.
Local recycling coordinators in Illinois claim that 5.1 million tons of
municipal waste were recycled in 2002. Total municipal waste
generated is 22.1 million tons. Dividing the amount recycled (5.1
million tons) by the amount generated 22.1 million tons equals a
24.9 percent recycling rate.
Most of the counties in Chicago Metropolitan area voluntarily report
recycling and waste generation figures annually. In this area, there
are adequate recycling markets and public interest and recycling is
high. In general, the most populated areas of the State voluntarily
report waste generation and recycling data annually to the Illinois
EPA.
What’s happening in the
solid waste industry in
Illinois?
v 51 active landfills in 2002, most
with larger capacities
v In Southern Illinois, one new landfill
is open, one is under development,
and two plan to expand
v Five years ago, the consolidation of
waste management companies
resulted in many changes in
ownership and operation of Illinois
landfills
v Continued private ownership and
operation of Illinois’ landfills
v Transfer of waste out of
metropolitan Chicago area into
adjacent states, and to north and
central Illinois counties continues
v More siting of transfer stations in
Chicagoland suburbs and
elsewhere in Illinois
2002 Annual
Report
Topics Covered
¢ Waste disposed in landfills,
2000-2002 (in gate cubic
yards and in gate tons)
¢ Remaining disposal capacity
as of Jan. 1, 2002 and Jan. 1,
2003 (in gate cubic yards)
¢ Specification pages for 57
landfills, 99 transfer stations and
54 compost sites
¢ Waste generated and recycled,
2002 (in tons)
¢ Waste handled by transfer
stations, 2000-2002
(in tons)
¢ Waste composted,
2000-2002 (in tons)
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002 v 1
Burn Barrels - Your
Questions Answered
Illinois EPA participates in the Great
Lakes Bi-national Toxic Strategy
efforts. Numerous emission sources
were evaluated, including uncontrolled
combustion of household waste in burn
barrels. A study done for Two Rivers
Regional Council, Quincy, by Patrick
Engineering in June 1994, discovered
that approximately 550 tons of
household waste is burned each day,
resulting in over 5,000 tons of
emissions annually.
Low temperature burning, such as that
in burn barrels is the last significant
quantifiable source of dioxin into the
Great Lakes. Additionally, ash
contaminated with a variety of metals
and semi-volatile organic compounds
creates a potential for land and water
pollution.
In partnership with USEPA, Illinois has
developed a fact sheet to help educate
residents who continue to utilize this
method of disposal. The brochure,
entitled “Burn Barrels - Your Questions
Answered” explains the potential for
adverse health effects from the
practice of backyard burning. It is
available on our web site www.epa.
state.il.us/community-relations/fact-sheets.
html. t
No municipal waste incinerated in 2002 at permitted
facilities
In the year 2000, a small amount of suburban Chicago’s waste was
incinerated at Robbins Resource Recovery Facility. Because this
site closed in November 2000 for business reasons, it was no longer
available as an option for solid waste disposal in 2001 or 2002.
Ownership and operation of Illinois landfills
Demands for capital and increasing technology requirements are
among the reasons for the increasing privatization of the solid waste
industry. Of the 51 active landfills profiled in this report that
accepted waste for disposal, 44 (86 percent) are privately owned and
47 (92 percent) are privately operated. Eight are owned and five are
operated by city or county governments.
Onyx/
WMI1 AW2 Republic3 Superior4 Totals
Number of Waste
Collection Companies 435 340 2 49 966
Number of Active
Landfills 293 169 56 26 544
Number of Transfer
Stations 346 175 90 30 5 641
Number of Waste to
Energy Facilities 16 0 0 0 16
Number of Recycling
Companies 146 66 33 21 5 266
Rankings:
1 Waste Management Inc. (WMI) reports $11.14 billion in 2002
revenue, covers 48 states, Canada and Puerto Rico
2 Allied Waste Industries (AW) reports $5.517 billion as of Dec. 31,
2002 revenue, covers 39 states
3 Republic Services (Republic) reports $2,365.1 million in revenue
as of Dec. 31, 2002, covers 22 states
4 Onyx/Superior covers 11 states, Bahamas and Mexico.
5 Data not confirmed.
Source: Company Annual Reports and Web Sites
Some material is banned from disposal in Illinois landfills. The type of material banned is indicated below and the date of its
legislative ban is noted.
Landscape waste: July 1, 1990 Whole used tires: Jan. 1, 1995
Lead acid batteries: Sept. 1, 1990 Used m otor oil: July 1, 1996
White goods components: July 1, 1994
Landfill operators and owners are responsible for ensuring that the wastes mentioned above are not accepted at their facilities.
Inspectors from the Agency and/or delegated agencies check the landfills log sheets that indicate items not accepted at the gate,
and were returned to the generator or transporter.
USA’s Top Waste Management Companies: 2002
Material Bans
2 v Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002
About $1 million per acre
Developing a landfill requires enormous investments in land and
equipment totaling millions of dollars, plus engineering expenses,
fees to state and local governments, taxes, normal operating costs
and additional millions set aside for post-closure care. One industry
rule of thumb says it takes about $1 million per acre to design,
build, permit, operate and conduct post-closure care at a landfill
today. Patrick Engineering Inc., Springfield, designed plans for
several counties in Illinois in 1994, which included landfill
economic studies, describing costs necessary to build 100 tons per
day (TPD), 500 TPD and 1,000 TPD landfills.
These costs included pre-development stage, site development, site
operation, closure costs, post-closure costs and financing issues.
Landfills are developed cell by cell
Landfills are divided into sections called cells, which are developed
as needed, filled systematically so that specific loads of waste can
be located weeks or months later, and covered with soil or other
materials to prevent the spread of odors and vermin.
Trucks arriving at a landfill are inspected for prohibited
nonhazardous wastes (Illinois bans landfilling of liquids, motor oil,
whole tires and landscape wastes) and for hazardous wastes. Loads
are weighed and details about them are recorded. They are then
taken to the exposed portion of the active cell, which is known as
the working face.
Trucks empty their loads at the working face, where specially
modified bulldozers spread and compact the waste, crushing it to
eliminate air pockets and squeezing it into the smallest space
possible.
During 2002, 51 Illinois landfills reported receiving a total of 54.6
million gate cubic yards (16.6 million gate tons) of solid waste. A
ranking of these facilities (Appendix C) finds the top five landfills
received 47.1 percent of waste received in Illinois. This unequal
distribution of waste creates a large difference between an average
landfill, which would have accepted almost 1.1 million gate cubic
yards (about 324.7 thousand gate tons) of waste and a median
landfill, which would have received about 517.1 thousand gate
cubic yards (almost 156.7 thousand gate tons).
Closings cut capacity
Two landfills closed their gates between 2000 and 2002. They were:
Region 2: CDT Landfill (June 9, 2000) and Wheatland Prairie RDF
(June 18, 2001).
Landfills projecting closure dates prior to the end of 2003 are as
follows: Region 1: Freeport Municipal Landfill #4 (ceased accepting
waste in April 2003); Region 3: Streator Area Landfill #3
(expansion under review); Region 6: South Chain of Rocks RDF
(still open as of September 2003); and in Region 7: Saline County
Landfill (temporarily closed).
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002 v 3
Delegated Inspection
Program
The Illinois EPA has delegated
inspection authority to 18 county
agencies, the Ambraw Valley Solid
Waste Agency and Chicago. This
program takes advantage of additional
staff resources at the local level.
Delegation agreements authorize these
agencies to conduct many of the duties
that would otherwise be performed by
an Illinois EPA field office: investigating
suspected violations of land pollution
laws and reports of open dumping, and
inspecting landfills, transfer stations
and compost facilities permitted
through the Agency’s Bureau of Land.
Inspections can also include industrial
landfills and monofills (private facilities
that do not accept municipal solid
waste).
Thousands of inspections of pollution
control facilities and other sites were
completed by delegated agencies
during 2002. These efforts at the local
level stimulate the regulated
community to take all necessary steps
to comply with environmental
regulations. Also, prompt response by
local authorities does much to curtail
open dumping, unfortunately still a
common practice throughout Illinois.
In 2003, a team of county and Agency
staff developed a solid waste
inspection training manual for its field
operations personnel at the Agency’s
regional offices and for our delegated
partners.t
Average Illinois Landfill,
2002
Waste Disposed
1.1 million gate cu. yds. (324.7 thousand
gate tons)
Capacity Available
13.7 million gate cu. yds. (4.2 million gate
tons)
Gate Cubic Yards and Tons
Illinois landfills are required to report to
the Illinois EPA the quantities of waste
received during each calendar year.
They must also calculate how much
capacity remains available for future
waste disposal.
These figures are submitted to the
Agency in “gate cubic yards”, or the
volume of waste entering the landfill’s
gate. Remaining capacities are
expressed as certified gate cubic
yards, meaning that the calculations
have been certified as true and
accurate by a licensed professional
engineer. These numbers are found in
the landfill specification pages in each
regional section of this report.
The term “in-place cubic yards” is used
to indicate wastes that have been
compressed to a half or a third or a
quarter of their original volume,
depending on the degree of
compaction achieved by the landfill.
Gate cubic yards can be difficult to
visualize. To aid the reader, we have
divided gate cubic yards by an industry
standard of 3.3 to achieve approximate
tons. In other words 3.3 gate cubic
yards = one ton.
Landfills seek to expand
One landfill in Region Four: ERC Coles County Landfill,
Charleston, increased its permitted disposal areas in 2002. Streator
Area Landfill #3, Streator and Saline County Landfill, Harrisburg
plan to expand their disposal areas in the near future.
Additional capacity at Sangamon Valley Landfill in Region Five
was unavailable in 2002, but by July 2003 the new owner remedied
the site’s environmental issues and the Illinois EPA permitted it to
re-open, but reduced its capacity.
Southern Illinois Regional Landfill, DeSoto, also has a permit
application under review to expand.
USEPA’s MSW Report, 2000
National solid waste data are available in the report Municipal Solid
Waste in the United States: 2000 Facts & Figures, published June
2002. To get a copy, contact USEPA at www.epa.gov/osw and
search by report number EPA530-S-02-001. This report contains
information about waste generation and categorizes the municipal
solid waste stream by waste type. The executive summary is
abstracted below.
National Figures for 2000 Reported by USEPA 1
Number of municipal solid waste landfills in the USA 1,967
Average number of landfills per state 39
Million Tons Percent PPD 2
Waste generated 231.9 4.5
Waste recycled and composted 69.9
Waste recycled 53.4 30.1
Waste composted 16.5
Waste landfilled and combusted 162.0 70
Waste landfilled 128.3 55.3
Waste combusted 33.7 14.5
1 Source: Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 2000 Facts & Figures, USEPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, June 2002
2 PPD = Pounds Per Person Per Day
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Acronyms Used in this Report
AKA Also known as
CS Compost site
LF Landfill
LSW Landscape waste
MRRF Material Recycling and Recovery Facility
PPD/PCD Pounds per person per day/Pounds per capita per
day
RDF Recycling and Disposal Facility
TPD Tons per day
TPY Tons per year
TS Transfer station
Waste imported and exported in 2002
Perhaps even more revealing state data show in the table on bottom
of the next page, views of waste disposal and landfill capacities on a
per capita basis. Chicago Metropolitan Region has lowest remaining
capacity per capita. There is a moratorium against landfills within
Chicago’s city limits and land prices are high. Waste generated in a
highly populated Chicago Metropolitan area, then becomes a state -
wide problem.
Siting of new landfills or expansion of existing landfills in Northwest
and Central Illinois might help alleviate this situation. Land pricing is
more reasonable in these areas. Transfer of waste from the Chicago
metropolitan area might also occur to other states (Wisconsin and
Indiana).
Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Indianapolis
reported in its “2002 Summary of Indiana Solid Waste Facility Data”
that 88 percent of waste imports come from 29 Illinois counties.
Almost 1.4 million tons of Illinois waste were imported into Indiana
in 2002. Illinois waste was sent to 14 landfills in 12 Indiana counties
for disposal: Fulton, Greene, Hendricks, Lake, LaPorte, Newton,
Pike, Putnam, Vanderburgh, Vermilion, Vigo and White.
Cook County, Illinois (County Seat, Chicago) sent to Indiana almost
1.2 million tons of waste in 2002.
Any limits to out-of-state waste disposal in other states, or capacity
shortages, would put pressure on the Chicago Metropolitan areas
waste management systems and could cause a local shortage in
landfill disposal capacity.
The tonnage of waste from Indiana counties that was sent to Illinois
landfills in 2002 totaled 144,585 tons. Indiana’s waste was managed
by 14 Illinois landfills, located mostly in East Central Illinois.
State of Origin of Wastes
Received at Illinois Landfills
in 20021
Ten percent of all solid waste landfilled
in Illinois in 2002 is 5.8 million gate
cubic yards (1.8 million tons), which
came from out-of-state. However,
waste haulers do not report how much
Illinois waste they transport to landfills
in other states or from which counties
in Illinois waste is transported.
Most importing states are neighbors to
Illinois and share its borders.
State of Origin Percent
Missouri 78.5%
Iowa 15.1%
Indiana 2.4%
Kentucky < 1%
Wisconsin 3.4%
Other States 2 < 1%
Total 100%
1 Twenty-six (26) Illinois landfills
accepted waste from 12 other states in
2002.
2 Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and
Tennessee
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Illinois Landfills: Waste Accepted in 2002 Versus 2001
Landfills
Accepting 2002 Waste
Waste Waste Accepted, Gate Cu. Yds._ Yearly Change_____ Share of
Region 2002 1 2002 2 20013 Cu. Yds. Percent State Total
One: Northwestern Illinois 8 11,221,557 10,512,138 + 709,419 + 6.7 20.5
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 11 13,970,429 13,840,199 + 130,230 + .9 25.6
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 8 4,036,121 4,357,297 - 321,176 - 7.4 7.4
Four: East Central Illinois 9 13,811,429 13,959,055 - 147,626 - 1.1 25.3
Five: West Central Illinois 4 1,747,874 1,778,379 - 30,505 - 1.7 3.2
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 6 8,168,149 6,212,813 + 1,955,336 + 31.5 14.9
Seven: Southern Illinois 5 1,694,507 1,989,841 - 295,334 - 14.8 3.1
Totals 51 54,650,066 52,649,722 + 2,000,344 + 3.8 100
1 Includes facilities that accepted municipal waste for less than one full year.
2 Includes 5,800,977 cubic yards of out-of-state waste (10% of state total) ac cepted by 26 Illinois landfills during 2002.
3 Includes 4,755,198 cubic yards of out-of-state waste (9% of state total) accepted by 30 Illinois landfills during 2001.
Capacity decreases documented on Jan. 1, 2003
In a year that brought a 2.3 percent decline in landfill capacity, 42 of 51
Illinois landfills had less waste disposed in 2002 compared to 2001.
Capacity was reduced under new owners at one landfill by permit
action.
The table below compares landfill remaining capacities in “snapshots”
taken Jan. 1, 2002, and Jan. 1, 2003. Total capacity dropped 16.8
million gate cubic yards from 2001 to 2002. New cells, areas, or phases
opened at two landfills in 2002.
In Southern Illinois, however, landfill capacity increased 93.1 percent
due to the opening of West End Disposal Facility. Three Regions : One,
Three and Six reported very small declines in capacity.
Moderate declines (10.6 percent to 13.7 percent) are reported in Regions
Two, Four and Five.
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Southern Illinois Capacity
up 93% in 2002
The large increase in capacity of 93.1
percent in Region Seven, Southern
Illinois, is caused by the opening of
West End Disposal Facility,
Thompsonville. Perry Ridge Landfill
in DuQuoin (Perry County) shall also
be operating in the near future.
Saline County Landfill and Southern
Illinois Regional Landfill also plan to
expand in the near future, if permitted
to do so by Illinois EPA. Marion
Ridge, a new landfill proposed in
Williamson County has a permit
application under review.
Illinois Landfills: Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2003 Versus Jan. 1, 2002
Landfills
Reporting Capacity
Capacity Reported Capacity, Gate Cu. Yds.___ Yearly Change_____ Share of
Region 1-1-03 1-1-03 1-1-02 Gate Cu. Yds. Percent State Total
One: Northwestern Illinois 8 158,998,000 161,914,000 - 2,916,000 - 1.8 22.7
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 11 74,231,000 85,975,000 - 11,744,000 - 13.7 10.6
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 8 177,195,000 180,064,000 - 2,869,000 - 1.6 25.3
Four: East Central Illinois 9 80,712,000 92,246,000 - 11,534,000 - 12.5 11.5
Five: West Central Illinois 1 4 51,499,000 57,615,000 - 6,116,000 - 10.6 7.3
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 6 112,470,000 116,191,000 - 3,721,000 - 3.2 16.0
Seven: Southern Illinois 5 45,794,000 23,711,000 + 22,083,000 + 93.1 6.5
Totals 51 700,899,000 717,331,000 - 16,817,000 - 2.3 100
1 Includes capacity at one inactive facility: Sangamon Valley Landfill which re-opened in July 2003.
Waste Disposed and Landfill Capacity Per Capita; Landfill Life Expectancy
Estimated Waste Disposed, Cu. Yds. 1 Remaining Capacity, Cu. Yds Landfill Life
Region Population 2002 Per Capita Jan. 1, 2003 Per Capita Years2
One: Northwestern Illinois 801,336 11,221,557 14.0 158,998,000 198.4 14
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 8,324,491 13,970,429 1.7 74,231,000 8.9 5
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 758,984 4,036,121 5.3 177,195,000 233.5 44
Four: East Central Illinois 857,253 13,811,429 16.1 80,712,000 94.2 6
Five: West Central Illinois 560,176 1,747,874 3.1 51,499,000 91.9 29
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 705,844 8,168,149 11.6 112,470,000 159.3 14
Seven: Southern Illinois 436,414 1,694,507 3.9 45,794,000 104.9 27
Totals 12,444,498 54,650,066 4.4 700,899,000 56.3 13
1 Amounts reported in gate cu. yds.
2 Remaining capacity divided by waste disposed. Tells how long a region may be served by local landfills at current disposal rates, barring capacity
adjustments, until capacity is depleted.
Statewide Landfill Capacity Is Abundant Despite Same Number of Facilities
New Facilities in Southern Illinois Permitted to be Developed or Constructed
Region Landfill Municipality County
Disposal Area
(acres)
Design Acreage
(cu. yds.)1
Seven: Southern Illinois Perry Ridge 2 DuQuoin Perry 141 14.8 million
Seven: Southern Illinois West End Disp. Facility 3 Galatia Saline 125 14.5 million
1 Includes space for waste, intermediate or daily cover and capacity (in-place cubic yards)
2 Permit approved, site now being developed. 3 Site opened October 24, 2002.
Total 266 29.3 million
At the end of each year, Illinois landfill operators calculate how much waste they will be able to accept in
the future. This volume is known as remaining or available capacity, and is expressed in gate cubic
yards, meaning waste received at the landfill’s gate, before it is compacted. One industry rule of thumb
says 10 gate cubic yards of waste can be compressed into five compacted cubic yards. Obviously, the
greater the compaction, the more waste can be buried.
Tight Regulations Force Cutbacks Pushing Survivors To Build Capacity
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Active landfills accepting waste each year Available landfill space, millions of gate cubic yards
Millions of gate cubic yards Wastes landfilled, millions of gate cubic yards
Municipal Waste
Management Plans
and Plan Updates
The Solid Waste Planning and
Recycling Act requires all Illinois
counties and the city of Chicago to
develop, adopt and implement 20-year
municipal waste management plans.
Every five, 10 and 15 years, each plan
must identify changes in planning
areas, evaluate progress in the plan
implementation and, if necessary,
revise plan recommendations and
goals. A county also has the option of
updating its solid waste generation
rate. The plan is then submitted to the
Illinois EPA for review and comment.
Questions concerning these plans
should be directed to the appropriate
local administrators listed in Appendix
K of this report. Due dates for plan
updates are found in Appendix L.
Municipal waste management in Illinois: 2002
Landfilling continues to play the largest role in the handling of
municipal waste in Illinois. It is estimated that almost 75 percent
was landfilled in 2002. The waste generation figure stands at 22.1
million tons. To arrive at this figure, the municipal data collected
from landfills (16.1 million tons), the 354,000 tons composted, and
the amount reported as recycled by local recycling coordinators (5.1
million tons) were added.
Waste generation does not include the amounts managed by
homeowners, using either compost piles in their backyards or
incineration for volume reduction using burn barrels. The waste
generation data reported by local recycling coordinators might be 10
to 15 years out-of-date, and is based upon 1990 (or earlier)
population figures. Until new studies are done locally and all
populations are revised based upon 2000’s census, 15.4 million tons
of waste generated, as voluntarily reported by local recycling
coordinators, might be 6.7 million tons too low.
Recycling, as calculated using the waste generation equation
mentioned above, computes to the following rates: landfilling: 74.9
percent; recycling: 23.4 percent and composting: 1.6 percent. These
figures outlined below in the pie chart might be the more accurate
figures.
Composting
1.6%
Recycling
23.4%
Landfilling
74.9%
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Municipal Waste Management in Illinois: 2002
Results of Illinois Recycling
Economics Study
The National Recycling Economic
Information Study, conducted by R.W.
Beck1 on behalf of the National
Recycling Coalition 2 (NRC), and
commissioned by the U.S. EPA,
identified and documented the impact
of the recycling/reuse industries in the
United States. Illinois was among 12
states researched. Preliminary results
show that Illinois hosts over 2,400
recycling and re-use establishments
employing 56,000 people, generating a
$1.8 billion payroll and earning $12
billion in annual revenues. Visit the
NRC website at www.nrc-recycle.org
for more details.
1 R.W. Beck Inc. contact: Jonathan Burgiel at 407-
422-4911 or jburgiel@rwbeck.com
2 NRC contact: Kate Krebs at 202-347-0450 ext. 23 or
KateK@nrc-recycle.org
Amount recycled
Solid waste coordinators have many priorities to balance. More
pressing priorities of public health concern such as West Nile Virus
and bioterrorism, plus limited funding for solid waste planning
studies, have diverted the attention of many away from solid waste
management issues during the past few years. Therefore, the 33.6
percent recycling rate reported should be considered an estimate.
Actual figures may be lower or higher.
Municipal Wastes Generated & Recycled
Estimated Waste Generated Waste Recycled_
Region Population Tons PCD 1 Tons Percent
One: Northwestern Illinois 801,336 829,823 5.7 228,411 27.5
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 8,324,491 11,051,943 7.3 4,132,633 37.4
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 758,984 898,749 6.5 230,237 25.6
Four: East Central Illinois 857,253 963,560 6.2 196,788 20.4
Five: West Central Illinois 560,176 663,758 6.5 162,215 24.4
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 705,668 632,479 4.9 187,438 29.6
Seven: Southern Illinois 436,414 388,179 4.9 53,666 13.8
Total 12,444,322 15,428,491 6.8 5,191,388 33.6
1 PCD = Pounds per capita per day.
Who to Call for Help With
Specific Problem Wastes
The Illinois EPA supports a number of
waste disposal and recycling efforts aimed
at helping households and selected
institutions safely dispose of household
hazardous waste, scrap tires, leftover
paint, used motor oil, educational
hazardous waste and more.
To obtain the latest information about these
programs, or to learn the dates, times and
locations of drop-off collections, please call
one of the following:
t Dan Rion, at 217-782-9294,
concerning scheduling of Household
Hazardous Waste collections;
t Tap Hefley or Todd Marvel, at
217-785-8604, concerning scrap/used
tire disposal;
t David Saladino, at 217/558-4115
concerning high school laboratory
hazardous waste and used fluorescent
and high intensity light bulb disposal;
t David Anderson, at 217/558-2574,
concerning what to do with waste paint
and used motor oil.
State Solid Waste and Recycling Grants
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
(DCEO), Bureau of Energy and Recycling issues a number of
grants to governments, not-for-profit organizations and
businesses.
For information about grant programs promoting recycling
efforts, contact these DCEO staff members.
Division and Contact Person Phone
t Recycling & Waste Reduction Division
Reg Willis, Manager 217-782-7887
t Resource Recovery Section
217-524-0933
t Resource Development Section
217-785-2006
t Education, Research and Development
Ron Swager, Manager 217-785-3498
For information about recycling publications, contact the
Solid Waste Clearinghouse at 800-252-8955 (Illinois only) or
217-785-0211 (out-of-state).
For information regarding the U.S.EPA/National Recycling
Coalition/R.W. Beck study on recycling economics, contact
Ron Swager at the number above.
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2002 v 9
On-Farm Composting
Facilities
In rural areas, farming provides an
outlet for landscape waste
management through the Illinois
Environmental Protection Act’s
provisions for on-farm exemption and
agronomic rate application, Section
830.106 a) and b). While the
agronomic rate application has only
one limit (20 tons per acre per year);
other requirements that must be met to
be permit exempt are that:
·      The site and where the finished
compost is to be used, must be on
property operated by the farmer
doing the composting. The property
used for the composting process
cannot be more than two percent of
that farmer’s total acreage.
·     The compost site, and the land
where the compost is to be used,
shall be “principally and diligently
devoted to the production of
agricultural crops”.
·      The land used and the farmer shall
not be connected to a waste
hauling company, or a generator of
non-agricultural compost materials
(tree trimming businesses,
nurseries, cemeteries and utility
companies). If the farmer is paid to
haul the landscape waste to the
site, he would not be qualified for
the exemption.
·     The compost needs to be used
within 18 months of the waste
being brought to the site.
·      The compost site and use area
meet required setbacks from wells
(200 feet), nearest residence (one-fourth
mile) and groundwater (five
feet). It cannot be within the 10-
year flood plain, or have more than
10 occupied non-farm homes within
one-half mile.
·      The farmer registers the site with
the Illinois EPA, and submits an
annual report.
Composting is increasing by 5.8 percent
Landscape wastes were banned from Illinois landfills beginning July
1, 1990. The number of compost sites now stands at 40, three less
than in 2001.
Compost facilities report to the Agency each year the quantities of
wastes accepted. In 2002, the state’s compost facilities processed
more than 354,000 tons of landscape wastes, a 5.8 percent increase
from 2001’s total of 333,701 tons.
Chicago Metropolitan area compost sites take six of the top 10 spots
in terms of waste accepted in 2002. Number one, two and three
ranked sites, located in Kankakee, McHenry and Kendall counties,
took in one-third of the wastes composted in Illinois in 2002.
Number 10 ranked site in Quincy closed in 2003.
However, increasing amounts of landscape wastes in all parts of the
State are being handled by permit-exempt farms, which are
described next.
Compost Facilities: Wastes Handled 2002
Active
Region Facilities Tons
One: Northwestern Illinois 6 45,252
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 16 220,799
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 6 22,421
Four: East Central Illinois 1 4 17,766
Five: West Central Illinois 2 12,991
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 5 34,045
Seven: Southern Illinois 1 1,059
Total 40 354,333
1 One active site did not report amount accepted in 2002.
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On-farm composting facilities
If the farmer meets the requirements shown in the adjacent table,
then a composting permit is not needed. However, the sites are still
subject to the minimum performance standards of Section 830.202
of the Act. These requirements include controlling odors, processing
waste within five days, run-off and run-on control, and windrow
construction. They must have written plans for the intended use and
for odor control. The only minimum standards they are not required
to meet are posting an entrance sign and record keeping of
complaints. They are not subject to any of the standards for
permitted compost sites.
Due to the limitations of the exemption, the finished compost may
not be sold, given to others, or used as alternate daily cover at
landfills.
Project TREAD launched
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Director Renee Cipriano announced on
March 20, 2003 the launch of “Project
TREAD” that will seek additional help from
the public and local officials to identify and
remove illegal tire dumps.
“Illinois EPA’s Used Tire Management
Program cleaned up more than 1.1 million
waste tires last year that were potential
breeding grounds for mosquitoes that may
spread West Nile virus and other
diseases,” said Director Cipriano.
“Project TREAD (Tire Reduction, Education
and Disposal) will urge citizens and local
officials to report improperly discarded tires
to the Illinois EPA and/or to local police,”
Director Cipriano added.
Fact sheets addressing the hazards posed
by abandoned used tires will also be sent
to local officials across the state.
Public Service Announcements will also be
mailed to radio stations statewide and
Illinois EPA will give special recognition to
those officials and citizens who make
outstanding contributions to Project
TREAD.
“In addition to the more than 1,000
inspections done by our staff each year, we
rely on tips from the public and local
officials to track down renegade tires,”
noted Director Cipriano.
If mosquito larvae are found, the inspector
applies a larvacide and takes immediate
action to have the tires removed and
disposed of properly.
Illinois EPA is part of the state’s West Nile
Virus Task Force and last year cleaned up
more than 50,000 waste tires at the
request of the Illinois Department of Public
Health and local health departments.
Approximately 12 million used tires are
generated each year in Illinois. While most
are now managed properly as a result of
oversight by the our Used Tire
Management Unit, there are still hundreds
of thousands of tires that need to be
removed from illegal sites each year. t
In 2002, 43 of 86 active transfer stations (45.7 percent) voluntarily
reported handling nearly 6.2 million tons of trash, or nearly 11.2
percent of wastes landfilled statewide. If the number of active
landfills falls from 51 in 2002, to the mid-40s, or even the upper-
30s, over the next decade, the number of transfer stations can be
expected to grow, as will the amount of wastes they will handle.
The Agency requested data from transfer stations, but not all of the
facilities chose to voluntarily return the survey; so it is assumed that
transferred amounts of waste are under-represented in this report.
We do know which transfer stations were accepting waste, because
they are inspected on a regular basis by our Field Operations staff
and the delegated agencies.
Project TREAD launched
See the sidebar for more information on Project TREAD (Tire
Reduction, Education and Disposal), the Illinois EPA's outreach
effort to increase the public's awareness and assistance for the
Illinois EPA's Used Tire Program in response to the serious West
Nile Virus situation in Illinois.
In addition, the Illinois EPA issued a fact sheet in early 2003 called
"Used Tires and the West Nile Virus." This fact sheet identifies the
link between improperly managed used and waste tires and the
proliferation of disease-carrying mosquitoes that results in an
increased risk and occurrence of West Nile Virus. The fact sheet is
available on our web site at http://www.epa.state.il.us/land/tires/
images/project-tread.pdf.
For further information on the Illinois EPA's Used Tire Program, go
to http://www.epa.state.il.us/land/tires/index.html.
Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled in 2002
Active
Region Facilities Tons
One: Northwestern Illinois 6 128,239
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 59 5,782,390
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 4 10,055
Four: East Central Illinois 6 1,400
Five: West Central Illinois 3 167,696
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 5 73,606
Seven: Southern Illinois 3 58,079
Total 86 6,221,465
1 Each region contains active sites that did not report amounts of waste
accepted.
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Transfer station and recycling center regulations to be
drafted in 2003
It is anticipated that draft regulations for recycling centers and
transfer stations will be promulgated during 2003. You may check
the Illinois Pollution Control Board web site www.ipcb.state.il.us if
interested in the status of the rule -making process.
Permitting requirements of Illinois EPA
New landfills or landfill expansions cannot be built unless the
Bureau of Land issues a permit. Issuance of a Bureau of Air permit
to a landfill identifying it as a potential new source of air pollution
must also be obtained.
An initial completeness review of a permit application normally
takes 30 days. If omissions are found, the application is rejected as
incomplete. The applicant then has 35 days to provide additional
information to make an application complete. Once an application is
found to be complete, technical reviews are conducted.
Approval or denial of permit applications
During the review period, comments are solicited from Bureau of
Land’s Regional Office, Groundwater Assistance Unit and the Solid
Waste Unit. After review of the application, the addenda, and
comments from public officials, the general public and the regional
office, final action is ready to be taken.
If the reviewers have found the application to completely adhere to
applicable environmental regulations, then the permit is approved
outright or with special conditions. If the application is deficient,
then the Permit Section denies the permit.
Rather than sending out a formal denial letter, the reviewer prepares
a draft denial letter which explains the areas in the application that
are deficient. The applicant has a choice of either providing some
additional information in the form of an addenda to the original
application or asking the reviewer for a formal denial that could be
appealed to the Illinois Pollution Control Board. Additional
information is usually provided. Approval or denial of a permit
application takes 180 days, unless an extension is granted.
If the application is denied, an owner/operator could submit a new
application, appeal the Agency’s denial of the permit through the
Illinois Pollution Control Board or they could abandon the project.
Most choose to submit a new application, starting the 180-day
process over again.
Permits for landfills contain detailed requirements for the design,
construction, capacity and operation of the landfills. They also
contain stringent requirements for monitoring the groundwater
beneath and around the landfill to detect releases from the landfill
that would adversely impact the quality of the groundwater. Finally,
the permit contains detailed requirements to properly “close” the
landfill once it has been filled to permitted capacity and to provide
for proper care of the landfill after it has been closed.
From time to time, the owner/operator of a landfill must modify the
facility’s permit. These modifications can address many things,
including changes in construction and/or operational practices;
construction of cells within the permitted landfill boundaries; and
groundwater monitoring issues.
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Alternative re-use of
Construction and Demolition
Debris
The Illinois Environmental Protection Act
was amended in July 2003 to increase
the opportunities for beneficial reuse of
clean construction and demolition debris.
Clean construction or demolition debris
includes uncontaminated concrete with
no protruding metal bars, bricks, rock,
stone; reclaimed asphalt pavement; and
soil from construction or demolition
activities.
Prior to July 2003, use of this material
without being classified as disposal of
solid waste was mainly limited projects
where it was used “below grade.” This
meant the material was used to fill a
quarry, borrow pit or other constructed
excavation. It could also be used in
engineered construction projects.
The changes to Section 3.160 of the Act
removed the “below grade” requirement.
It was replaced by the limitation that the
fill is placed no higher than the existing
elevation of the area immediately
adjacent to the site prior to filling. With
this change, leveling parking lots and
filling in ravines can now be done without
being part of an engineered project.
Please refer to the whole text of Section
3.160 prior to beginning a project, as
there are other limitations and conditions
that must be taken into account before
using the material.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Act
and the Rules and Regulations of the
Illinois Pollution Control Board are
available on the Internet. Go to the
Agency’s web site, www.epa.state.il.us
and choose “Rules and Regulations”.
This will provide links to the Illinois
Pollution Control Board and Secretary of
State web sites where this information is
kept.u
Financial Assurance
Requirements
Funding for landfill closure, post-closure
maintenance and corrective
action must be provided by the landfill
owners and operators, ensuring costs
are not borne by taxpayers. Many
different mechanisms are available to
help landfill owners prove now that
they will be able to pay later.
Financial assurance mechanisms for
landfill closure and long-term care fall
into three broad categories: cash-in-hand,
in the form of trust funds or
escrow accounts; third-party insurance,
including letters of credit and surety
bonds; and various types of self-insurance.
Self-insurance can include a
financial test, a guarantee by a parent
corporation or government entity, or
deferred funding in the form of pledge
of revenues. The state can further
determine which mechanisms are
allowable for publicly and privately
owned landfills and how landfill owners
and operators must provide
accounting.
Closure and long-term cost estimates
are revisited annually for active
landfills. For those which closed under
Part 807 regulations, review takes
place every two years. Costs are
updated based on the remaining
capacity in the landfill, the remaining
post-closure care period, and adjusted
for inflation. The funds available must
be adequate to cover the projected
costs.
For more information about Illinois
regulations regarding financial
assurance, contact Blake Harris,
Bureau of Land, at 217-785-8604. u
This report attempts to document significant permit actions.
However, only those permits actions which change the items
mentioned in “Facility Facts” section of the landfill specification
pages are acknowledged. Pay close attention to the footnotes on
each facility specification page for permit actions made during
2000, 2001 and 2002.
For more information about items discussed in this report, contact
the Agency’s Freedom of Information Officers at FOIA@epa.state.
il.us. You may also fax requests on letterhead to 217/782-9290. Be
very specific in your request for information and include the site
number, if possible.
Closure and post-closure care period
Once a landfill has received its permitted volume of waste, it must
be “closed” in accordance with an approved plan and with Illinois
landfill regulations. Proper closure of a landfill includes establishing
a proper grading plan to allow for precipitation to run off the
landfill, constructing a final cover over the waste to minimize the
amount of precipitation that can infiltrate the landfill, establishing a
vegetative cover system over the final cover system to minimize
erosion and finalizing the gas and leachate management systems to
ensure that gas and leachate generated in the landfill after the
landfill is closed are properly managed.
After a landfill has been properly closed, it must then receive at
least 30 years of post-closure care. Proper post-closure care includes
maintaining the vegetative cover to ensure it does not erode,
monitoring the groundwater to ensure there have been no releases
due to the landfill, and removing the gas and leachate generated in
the landfill to ensure that they do not have adverse impacts on the
area surrounding the landfill.
Closure activities, depending on the site, may include: capping the
landfill; installing monitoring devices if they are not already in
place; providing topsoil, seedin g, and mulching as necessary; and
possibly converting the land for follow-up use. Routine post-closure
care continues for 30 years after a landfill ceases accepting waste
and includes maintaining the surface cover, monitoring gas, flaring
or collecting any gas, monitoring, pumping and transporting any
leachate, and monitoring groundwater. Estimates for both closure
and post-closure care costs must be based on an engineering
estimate of the cost for a third party to perform the necessary work
and maintenance. Financial assurance is also required for corrective
action, such as remediation of groundwater contamination.
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Solid Waste Landfill Terms
Defined
Closure: procedure that a solid or
hazardous waste management facility
undergoes to cease operations and
ensure protection of human health and
the environment for the future.
Final Cover System: the materials or
layers (i.e., erosion/vegetative layer,
infiltration/barrier layer, drainage layer)
installed over the top of a closed landfill
to minimize infiltration and erosion.
Leachate: any liquid, including any
suspended components in the liquid,
which percolated through or is drained
from waste.
Operation & Maintenance: activities
conducted at a site to ensure that the
treatment and containment system is
functioning properly. This may include:
grading, seeding and mowing the
vegetative layer, monitoring and
repairing gas and leachate collection
systems; treating collected leachate;
groundwater monitoring and
maintaining; and repairing the physical
integrity of drainage control structures.
Response Action: an action taken to
reduce or control risks to human health
and the environment.
Site Investigation: a study designed to
gather data needed to determine the
nature and extent of contamination. u
Thirty-three abandoned landfills targeted for clean-up
In March 1999, the Illinois General Assembly appropriated $50
million to clean up 33 abandoned landfills located in 21 counties
throughout the state. Although these landfills stopped accepting
waste, they were not properly closed. Resulting risks include
contaminated drinking water, surface water pollution from run-off,
odors and dead vegetation from methane accumulation, presence of
vectors and other rodents, exposure to pathogens, exposure to
hazardous materials present in exposed refuse, infectious wastes or
hazardous substances present in the exposed refuse, and/or
landslides due to differential settling or unstable slopes.
The corrective action at these landfills includes pumping of
accumulated leachate, constructing an impermeable cover, grading
and slope stabilization, and seeding of vegetation for erosion
control. Several years post-corrective care will also be necessary for
maintenance and monitoring.
After corrective action is complete, as many as 12 of these
abandoned landfills may be available for use as green space using
native vegetation, or serve municipal functions as city garages or
parking lots.
Four years later, in 2002, 50 percent of the $50 million available
allotted to clean up the 33 abandoned landfills has been spent. In
2002, response actions were completed at the Waste Hauling
Landfill, Decatur; Bi-State Landfill, Belleville; Bath Landfill,
Decatur and Centralia Environmental Services, Inc., Centralia.
Construction began at six landfills: Bath and Waste Hauling
landfills, Decatur; Prior and Prior Blackwell landfills, Centralia; H
& L Landfill, Danville; and Paxton I, Chicago. Site investigations
were conducted at five landfills: Anna Landfill, Anna; Chicago
Heights Refuse Depot and Triem, Chicago Heights; Delta Landfill,
Mounds; and Lewis Landfill, Beardstown. Operation and
maintenance activities continued at Carlinville Landfill, Carlinville;
Steagall Landfill, Galesburg; Multi-County Landfill, Villa Grove;
Western Lion and Service Disposal Landfill, Mattoon; and Paxton
II, Chicago.
A separate appropriation totaling $15 million was approved for
stabilization and corrective action on what the Illinois EPA
identified as the “worst” site, Paxton II in southeast Chicago, due to
an imminent threat of a collapse of a portion of the landfill.
The Illinois EPA will make every effort to recover the State’s
corrective action costs from responsible parties.
For more information: a report entitled Illinois FIRST Abandoned
Landfill Program is available on our Bureau of Land website; (click
on clean-up programs, state response program, publications) or
contact State Response Action Program Acting Manager, Neelu
Reddy at 217-782-6761.
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Landfill liner study and continuing engineering education
for Illinois EPA staff
Illinois EPA's Bureau of Land, Permit Section, wrote some
recommendations in January 2003 for the 92nd General Assembly
in fulfillment of House Resolution 715.
“A Study of the Merits and Effectiveness of Alternate Liner
Systems at Illinois Landfills” is outlined on our web site.
Methodology and conclusions reached, as well as the entire report,
can be assessed at www.epa.state.il.us/land/publications/#solid-waste-
permits.
In addition, Illinois EPA has provided civil engineering training for
its staff. Topics have included landfill liquid management, landfill
gas emissions, slope stability and slope failures, and geotechnical
engineering analysis for its staff. These classes were taught by
professors from Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina and
University of Illinois, Urbana.
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill
Capacity in Illinois: 16th Annual Report (2002)
Section 4 of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act requires the
Agency to “publish a report regarding the projected disposal
capacity available for solid waste in sanitary landf ills. . . . Such
reports shall present the data on an appropriate regional basis. . .
[and] shall include an assessment of the life expectancy of each
site.”
This legislative mandate explains why the main body of this report
is organized by seven Illinois EPA administrative regions, and why
landfill capacity and life expectancy are emphasized in nearby
tables and charts, and in text, tables, map symbology and landfill
specification pages in the regional sections.
Other states which write a report similar to this are Florida, Indiana,
Washington and Virginia. For more information contact Peter
Gorer, Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection at 850-487-9532;
Michelle Weddle, Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management at
317-233-4624; Ellen Caywood, Washington Dept. of Ecology at
206-459-6259; and John Ely, Virginia Dept. of Environmental
Quality at 804-698-4249. Virginia’s report is only available on the
internet.
For more information about how Indiana’s report pertains to Illinois
see text on page 5 of this report.
Conclusion
Our state -wide analysis of solid waste management is now
concluded.
For more details about solid waste management throughout the
seven Illinois EPA administrative regions of Illinois see the body of
the document on pages R1.1 through R7.16.
The Appendices also contains supporting documentation that may
be useful. uu
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Case Study of Bath Landfill,
Decatur
The Bath Landfill, Decatur is located
adjacent to the Sangamon River and is
one-quarter mile from Decatur’s
Lincoln Park. Residences are located
approximately one-half mile to the
north. This 17 acre landfill ceased
accepting waste in 1991 due to a
Consent Order from the Illinois
Attorney General’s Office. The site was
never certified closed by the Illinois
EPA.
Illinois EPA’s 2001 investigation found
that disposal of waste extended very
close to the bank of the river. Debris,
such as appliances, glass, metal and
concrete, was present in the river. The
landfill had erosion problems,
uncovered refuse, and evidence of
leaching into the Sangamon River.
River sediment samples and one soil
sample along the riverbank contained
polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
above the most stringent sediment
quality objectives.
In August 2002, Illinois EPA began
construction which included: regrading
the landfill to improve drainage of steep
slopes; removing and properly
disposing of exposed waste; installing
a landfill gas management system to
protect the vegetation; adding a
compacted clay cap to minimize
infiltration and an additional layer of
soil to support vegetation; establishing
native prairie grasses to stabilize the
soil; and stabilizing portions of the
riverbank undergoing erosion using a
turf reinforcement mat, native shrubs,
and six-sided concrete anchoring
devices called A-jacks. Construction
was completed in December 2002. u
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Local Agencies Delegated to Inspect Pollution Control Facilities for the Illinois EPA
Eighteen counties, Chicago,
and Ambraw Valley Solid
Waste Agency inspect
pollution control facilities for
the Illinois EPA.
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CHAMPAIGN
HANCOCK
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MACON
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CLARK
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CHRISTIAN
MERCER
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BOND
PERRY
GREENE
WHITESIDE
MORGAN
JASPER
JACKSON
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TAZEWELL
WARREN
KANKAKEE
CLINTON
DEWITT
SALINE
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JO DAVIESS
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MONTGOMERY
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Illinois
Landfills,
2002
Freeport
Municipal
LF #4 (A)
Winnebago
Reclamation
Svc.
Onyx Orchard
Hills LF
Rochelle Municipal LF #2
Onyx Zion LF
Countryside
LF
Prairie Hills RDF
Lee County LF
Woodland
RDF (E)
Settler's
Hill
RDF
DeKalb
County LF
Sexton #2
CID RDF #3 & #4
River Bend Prairie LF
LandComp LF
Environtech Inc.
Morris
Community LF
Laraway RDF
Streator Area LF #3
Upper Rock
Island County LF
Quad Cities LF,
Phase 4
Knox
County
LF #3
Envirofil of
Illinois LF
Spoon Ridge LF
Peoria
City/County
LF #2
Peoria
Disposal
Co. #1
Tazewell
RDF
ADS/McLean
County LF #2
Livingston LF
Kankakee
RDF
Illinois LF
Pike
County LF
Clinton LF #2
Onyx Valley
View LF
Five Oaks RDF
RCS LF
Litchfield -
Hillsboro LF
Landfill
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D & L LF
Salem
Municipal
LF #2
Roxana LF
Authority
South Chain
of Rocks RDF
- Phase 2
Milam RDF
Brickyard
Disposal &
Recycling
ERC Coles
County LF
Lawrence County
Regional LF
Wayne County LF, Ill. Inc
Southern Illinois
Regional LF
Saline
County LF
Sangamon
Valley LF (C)
Cottonwood
Hills LF
Perry Ridge LF (B)
West End
Disposal
Facility (D)
A. Freeport Municipal Landfill #4 (Closed 04/05/03)
B. Perry Ridge Landfill (Under Construction)
C. Sangamon Valley Landfill (Inactive in 2002)
D. West End Disposal Facility (New 10/25/02)
E. Woodland RDF (Closed 11/05/02)
Landfills Receiving Waste in 2002
0 12.5 25 50 75 100
Miles
Interstate Highways
Inactive Landfills in 2002
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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2
3
4
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Region 1     Rockford
Region 2     Des Plaines
Region 3     Peoria
Region 4     Champaign
Region 5     Springfield
Region 6     Collinsville
Region 7     Marion
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Landfills Receiving Waste from Other States in 2002
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Regional offices are located in Rockford, Des Plaines, Peoria, Champaign, Springfield, Collinsville and Marion
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Administrative Regions
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