Preface

Since its establishment in 1970, the Illinois EPA has overseen the development and operation of a productive system of modern sanitary landfills. The Agency ensures 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.

This is the Agency's 14th annual report on landfill disposal and available landfill capacity in Illinois.  The number of active landfills in Illinois accepting waste in 2000 remained 53.  Sufficient capacity exists to handle the state's requirements for landfill disposal of nonhazardous solid waste for the next 15 years.

Regional capacity may be a different matter.  The Chicago Metropolitan and East Central Illinois areas have only seven and eight years remaining; more transfer stations are needed to transport waste outside Chicagoland.  There is also a possibility of landfill expansions.  Solid waste planners are especially concerned about this area of the State. Region 7 (Southern Illinois) has two new facilities under development:  Perry Ridge Landfill and West End Disposal Facility.  The state's newest landfill is Cottonwood Hills RDF near East St. Louis,  which opened in October, 2000.

The State of Illinois, seeking to avoid potential crises, has asked all Illinois counties to adopt and update every five years well-conceived plans to accommodate their future disposal needs.    Eighty-one five year plan updates and eight ten year plan updates have been received from counties.

Additionally, the Agency'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.  All of these activities are reflected in this publication.

 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

Executive Summary

This is the Illinois EPA's 14th annual report describing the management of nonhazardous municipal solid waste by the state's solid waste landfills and transfer stations. 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.  Provide are: its location and hours of operation, tipping fee, quantities of wastes received for the last three years, the landfill's certified remaining capacity for the last two reporting dates, solid waste management fees paid in 2000,  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 67 landfills, 90 transfer stations, and 52 compost facilities.

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 existing on the first day of the following year.

During 2000, 53 landfills reported receiving 49.3 million gate cubic yards of waste. This volume was 1.3 million gate cubic yards less than the total received during 1999, a 2.5 percent decrease.

As of Jan. 1, 2001, 53 landfills reported having a combined remaining capacity of  743.4 million gate cubic yards, or 49.3. million gate cubic yard less than on Jan. 1, 2000, a decrease of 6.2 percent.

Dividing wastes disposed during 2000 by capacity remaining on Jan. 1, 2001, indicates a landfill life expectancy in Illinois of 15 years, at 2000 disposal rates, barring capacity adjustments, until capacity is depleted state-wide.  However, close proximity of landfills to the waste generation site and also ownership of the facility can affect where waste is deposited.

These are Adobe Acrobat PDF files. You will need the free Acrobat Reader software, available from Adobe's web site, to view them.

You can download the full report or individual sections.

Full Report (376 pages, 2.5 M)

Introduction (29 pages, 716 KB)

Regions

• Region One: Northwestern Illinois (30 pages, 242 K)
• Region Two: Chicago Metropolitan (109 pages, 513K)
• Region Three: Peoria/Quad Cities (26 pages, 308 K)
• Region Four: East Central Illinois (28 pages, 200 K)
• Region Five: West Central Illinois (18 pages, 177 K)
• Region Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis (27 pages, 256 K)
• Region Seven: Southern Illinois (16 pages, 216 K)
  

Appendices

• Solid Waste Landfills:  Appendices A,B,C & D (16 pages, 215 K)
• Solid Waste Transfer Stations:  Appendices E, F & G  (17 pages, 215 K)
• Landscape Waste Compost Facilities: Appendices H, I & J (12 pages, 58 K)
• Solid Waste Planning and Recycling:  Appendices K, L & M:  (12 pages, 215 K)

Form 272: Report Documentation Page (1 page, 6K)