Peoria/Quad Cities Landfills Transfer Stations Compost Facilities
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Region Three: Peoria/Quad Cities Landfills Transfer Stations Compost Facilities The state’s largest landfill, Spoon Ridge Landfill, Fairview became inactive on June 30, 1998 and will re-open in 2001 or 2002 ANDFILLS IN REGION THREE ACCOUNTED FOR 22.7 PERCENT OF the Region 3 Data Analysis more than 792.7 million gate cubic yards of capacity statewide 1999 vs. 1998 Lon Jan. 1, 2000. The region’s facilities reported almost 180.3 million gate cubic yards, or 1.7 percent less than last year’s waste received total of 183.4 million gate cubic yards. Landfill capacity statewide - < 0.4 million cu. yds. increased 5.8 percent. Tazewell RDF and Upper Rock Island Co. - 8.6% Landfill ranked in the top 15 of the State’s landfills in terms of waste disposed in 1999. The State’s largest landfill, Spoon Ridge Landfill in Fairview, housed 71 percent of the capacity in the region. This landfill received a number of landfills development permit for an expansion in December of 1997, yet less three ceased accepting waste on June 30, 1998. It ranked 53rd in terms of wastes received in 1999, yet number one in the State in terms of capacity. total capacity - 3.1 million cu. yds. Certified capacity is not always “available” - 1.7% In the case of Spoon Ridge Landfill and three other landfills across the State, the amount of capacity at their site(s), is unavailable to waste haulers. Some landfills, for business reasons, close their gates. New owners have bought transfer stations and transferred waste to landfills owned by their company in other parts of the state which are drawing near to closure. Landfills and Transfer Stations: Active, Closed, Under Development Capacity Increase • Upper Rock Island County Landfill ¯ Capacity Decrease ¯ Quad Cities Landfill ¯ Watts Landfill 9 Henry County Landfill 9 : (closed 3-20-98) : (closed 6-16-97) ROCK ISLAND HENRY Kewanee Solid Waste — Transfer Station Knox County Landfill #3 • MERCER Monmouth Municipal STARK MARSHALL Peoria Disposal Co. #1 ¯ 9 Transfer Station — PEORIA — Wigand Recycling & Spoon Ridge Landfill WOODFORD Transfer Facility WARREN KNOX (inactive 6-30-98 (opened 3-13-98) 9 HENDERSON : 9 until 2001 or 2002) 9 : Tazewell RDF ¯ McDONOUGH 9 Envirofill of Illinois • FULTON 9 Pekin Landfill Landfill TAZEWELL (closed 11-18-98) HANCOCK Peoria City/County Landfill #2 • Peoria City/County Landfill #1 (opened 3-9-98) (closed 4-10-98) R3.2 v Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 1999 Other landfills are in the process of remedying violations under prior Counties 14 ownership. They cease accepting waste indefinitely until such problems can be solved to the satisfaction of local and state inspectors Area (square miles) 8,170 and legal counsel. Population (est.) 758,244 Landfill life expectancy Be assured that only those sites which are permitted by this Agency Years remaining 41— to operate are accepting waste at any given time. Landfills Voluntary and involuntary landfill closures in 1997 & 1998 New in 1999 0 Active in 1999 8 Peoria City/County Landfill #1 reached capacity limits and closed its Inactive since 1997 1 gates on April 10, 1998. The facility is expected to complete construction of the landfill’s cap and seek closure certification. Pekin Closed in 1998 4 Landfill also closed on Nov. 18, 1998. Opened in 1998 1 Open after 2001 8 Henry County Landfill #2 ceased taking wastes in August 1997 and is Transfer Stations attempting to resolve a number of compliance issues. The facility did New in 1999 0 not accept any wastes in 1999. New in 1998 1 Watts Landfill ceased accepting waste on March 20, 1998. Active in 1999 3 Compost facilities New landfill opened near Peoria Active in 1999 5 Peoria City/County Landfill #2 began taking wastes on March 9, Closed in 1997 1 — 1998. The new facility has a design capacity of 7.5 million airspace Total remaining capacity (from table below) cubic yards. Airspace includes all wastes and all daily cover (soil or divided by total wastes accepted. Tells how long the region may be served by local alternative materials spread atop the wastes at the end of each landfills at current disposal rates, barring working day) and the landfill’s final clay and topsoil cap. capacity adjustments, until capacity is depleted. Landfills: Wastes Accepted 1999; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2000 ____Wastes_____ ____Capacity____ Disp. Area Close 1 2 Municipality County Cu. Yds. Rank Cu. Yds. Rank Acres Year — Envirofil of Illinois Landfill Macomb McDonough 348,857 31 1,511,000 40 53 2003 CLOSED Henry County Landfill #2 Atkinson Henry 0 N/A 0 N/A 17 1997 — Knox County Landfill #3 Oneida Knox 273,827 38 1,662,000 38 42 2006 CLOSED Pekin Landfill Pekin Tazewell 0 N/A 0 N/A 47 1998 CLOSEDPeoria City/County Landfill #1 Edwards Peoria 0 N/A 0 N/A 102 1998 3 Peoria City/County Landfill #2 Brimfield Peoria 523,912 27 11,642,000 20 60 2021 4 — Peoria Disposal Co. #1 Peoria Peoria 148,316 46 1,178,000 42 74 2007 — Quad Cities Landfill Milan Rock Island 886,834 22 16,198,000 16 172 2018 — Spoon Ridge Landfill Fairview Fulton 5 53 130,465,000 1 372 2045 Tazewell RDF East Peoria Tazewell 1,159,587 12 3,397,000 32 110 2002 — Upper Rock Island County Landfill East Moline Rock Island 1,013,580 15 14,237,000 17 96 2013 CLOSED Watts Landfill 5 Taylor Ridge Rock Island 0 N/A 0 N/A 77 1998 Total 4,354,918 180,290,000 — Six landfills accepted out-of-state wastes during 1999 totaling 934,881 cubic yards, or 21% of the region’s total. 1 Standing among 53 landfills that accepted wastes during 1999. 2 Standing among 54 landfills that reported capacity as of Jan. 1, 2000. 3 Facility opened 3-9-98. 4 Holds permit to accept hazardous wastes. 5 Permit revoked Feb. 5, 1998; facility ceased accepting waste 3-20-98. Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 1999 v R3.3 The new landfill will be operated by Waste Management of Illinois Questions and Complaints Inc., whereas Peoria City/County Landfill #1 had been managed by a subsidiary of Peoria Disposal Co. (PDC). Subsidiaries of PDC Illinois EPA Region Three field office operate Clinton Landfill #2 and Pike County Landfill also. personnel investigate reports of suspected illegal waste disposal, and PDC’s 74-acre facility in Peoria is unique: It was one of the state’s inspect the region’s landfills, transfer two active, commercial hazardous waste landfills in 1999. (CID stations and compost facilities, except Recycling and Disposal Facility #4, in Chicago, also holds a permit to in Tazewell County, where joint accept hazardous waste.) responsibility has been delegated to a local authority. Spoon Ridge Landfill’s capacity not available Questions or complaints concerning The Agency granted Spoon Ridge Landfill, near Fairview, a permit in pollution control facilities, open December 1997, that would allow the facility’s owner and operator to dumping or other incidents should be expand the disposal area from 80 to 372 acres total landfill area from directed to the office having jurisdiction 995 to 1,038 acres, and raise peak elevation from 813.5 to 915 feet. over the site : With a design capacity of 84.6 million airspace cubic yards, the facility has become the state’s largest landfill. Illinois EPA 5415 N. University St. Six months later, the owners made an abrupt change when plans were Peoria, Ill. 61614 announced to temporarily close Spoon Ridge on June 30, 1998, for one Phone: 309-693-5462 to three years as part of a nationwide effort to cut costs. The landfills Fax: 309-693-5467 owners said, in published reports, they would use the time to continue developing transfer stations and securing waste contracts that will Tazewell County Health Department eventually allow wastes from greater Chicago area and southeastern 21306 Illinois Route 9 Wisconsin to be transported to Spoon Ridge. Tremont, Ill. 61568-9252 Phone: 309-477-2223 Ext. 221 Delegated inspections performed in Tazewell County Fax: 309-925-4381 The Illinois EPA has delegated inspection authority to Tazewell County Health Department for duties usually performed by the Agency’s field office, such as investigating all reports of open dumping and other land pollution incidents, and for inspecting the county’s one active and three closed landfills and one compost facility. Transfer station activity increased more than 20 percent. Two municipally owned and operated transfer stations handled almost 14,000 tons of waste, an amount equal to less than one percent of municipal solid wastes landfilled in the region during 1999. The change from 1998 to 1999 was a 22 percent increase. Transfer Stations: Wastes Handled 1999 Municipality County Tons Kewanee Solid Waste Kewanee Henry 10,000 Monmouth Municipal Monmouth Warren 2,305 Wigand1 Chillecothe Peoria 1,369 Total 13,674 1Opened 3-13-98. R3.4 v Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 1999 . but composting decreased 45 percent Municipal Waste Five of the region’s compost facilities processed more than 11,000 Management Plans tons of landscape wastes during 1999, a 45 percent decrease from The Solid Waste Planning and 1998. Recycling Act required all Illinois counties and the city of Chicago to Compost Facilities: Wastes Accepted 1999 develop, adopt and implement 20-year Municipality County Tons municipal waste management plans. Knox County Landfill Wataga Knox 3,060 Monmouth Municipal Monmouth Warren 2,830 Plans include programs and Pekin Composting Pekin Tazewell 1,974 recommendations to achieve solid Peoria City/Co.