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Annual Landfill Capacity ReportSixteenth Annual Landfill
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PrefaceAlthough 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 2002. Some remaining landfills (Landfill 33, Effingham and ERC/Coles County Landfill, Charleston) constructed expansions in 2002; in both cases there was sufficient acreage available 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
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Executive SummaryThis 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 the y 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. |
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