Waste Hauling Landfill
Decatur, Illinois
This 40-acre landfill site southwest of Decatur in Macon County was developed
in 1972 as a sanitary landfill. The site had a history of not complying with
the newer landfill rules in the 1980s. The landfill also exceeded its permitted
waste disposal limits by 40 to 50 feet, and the Illinois EPA eventually obtained
a court order to close the landfill on May 6, 1992. Located less than 1/4 mile
south of the Sangamon River and north of Rock Spring Road, the landfill has
wide erosion gullies. Visible leachate seeps (leachate is water that has traveled
through the landfill and contacted waste material) are observed on three sides
of the landfill and drain into a stream that flows into the Sangamon River.
Waste Hauling was identified in 1998 as one of the 33 landfills in the state
in most need of attention. The state legislature granted funding for these
sites to Illinois EPA in 1999 to be paid out over five years.
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