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Peoria company wants hazardous waste delisted
Waste
could then go to local landfills
Creates
threat to water supplies, including northern Logan County
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[August 15, 2008]
CLINTON -- The DeWitt County
Board held a three-hour emergency meeting to discuss a matter that
could affect the Clinton Landfill. However, the board declined 10-2
to pass a resolution requesting the Illinois Pollution Control Board
to hold a hearing in DeWitt County.
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 The public hearing has been set for 3 p.m. Monday at the Peoria
Public Library.Peoria Disposal Co. has made a permit application
to delist hazardous electric arc furnace dust waste.
According to WATCH, which stands for We’re Against Toxic
Chemicals, the Peoria-based waste management company is trying to
get the treated wastes reclassified, which would then allow the
wastes to be dumped in municipal waste landfills, including the
Clinton Landfill.
Material posted online by the WATCH organization says:
Electric Arc
Furnace dust results from steel mill processes. It is a listed
hazardous waste from the "derived from rule" and it contains known
carcinogens and other highly toxic substances, including hexavalent
chromium, mercury, arsenic, lead, zinc and cadmium. While some of
the electric arc furnace waste treated at PDC comes from Keystone
Steel and Wire in Bartonville, Peoria County, PDC accepts EAF wastes
from other states. After trucking the hazardous waste to the PDC
location at Peoria, PDC puts EAF waste through their "stabilization"
processing.
The waste will then be tested daily to see that it meets landfill
requirements. PDC then wants to ship the treated waste to one of
their municipal waste landfills, instead of having to landfill it in
their hazardous waste licensed landfill at Peoria, where they have
been landfilling this waste for about 20 years.
-- from WATCH
posting
According to WATCH, Peoria Disposal made public claims that they
would agree to allow DeWitt County to amend their landfill hosting
agreement. The public proposal made by Peoria Disposal allegedly
would allow the DeWitt County Board to have the right to allow or
deny the disposal of treated hazardous waste at the Clinton
Landfill.
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The Clinton Landfill is located over the Mahomet Aquifer. The
Mahomet Aquifer is a vast underground lake supplying water to the
counties of Logan, Cass, Tazewell, Peoria, Woodford, McLean, DeWitt,
Piatt, Macon, Champaign, Iroquois and Vermilion.
Matt Varble, president of WATCH, continues to express skepticism
and concern over the DeWitt County Board's refusal to get engaged in
this process. Peoria Disposal made a non-specific promise in
exchange with the board to amend the county landfill hosting
agreement.
A charter bus that was scheduled has been canceled. However WATCH
representatives still plan to attend the hearing in Peoria to
represent concerns brought forward by the community.
[News release and information from
WATCH; LDN]
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