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Seventeenth Annual Landfill
Capacity Report - 2003
Reporting Period: Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2003
Preface
Although the capacity remaining in Illinois landfills declined slightly,
the available space is still adequate and should serve our citizens for at
least another 12 years. In this, the Agency's 17th 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 2003, the number of active landfills in Illinois accepting waste was
50. Regional capacity, however, varied tremendously. Region 4, which
includes counties in East Central Illinois, has about four remaining years.
The Chicago
Metropolitan Region had five years of landfill capacity remaining at
the end of 2003.
In July 2003, Sangamon Valley Landfill, Springfield re-opened after
approval was received for a 50.31 acre lateral expansion that added 5.1
million cubic yards of airspace for waste disposal. In October 2003, Milam
Recycling and Disposal Facility, East St. Louis provided a 4.75 million
cubic yards expansion to the state, adding 19.5 cubic yards of airspace for
waste disposal.
Other landfills that expanded or were constructed at the beginning
of 2004, include Winnebago Reclamation Services, Rockford;
Prairie View Recycling and Disposal Facility, Wilmington; Envirofil
of Illinois Inc, Macomb; Indian Creek Landfill #2, Hopedale; and
Perry Ridge, DuQuoin. More about these facilities will be in the
18th annual report.
In 2003, there were additionally 91 active transfer stations and 38
active compost facilities that help manage the waste generated in
Illinois.
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
Director
Illinois EPA
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 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 (356 pages, 4.4 MB)
Introduction (37 pages, 1 MB)
Regions
Appendices
- Solid Waste Landfills: Appendices
A,B,C & D (15 pages, 119 KB)
- Solid Waste Transfer Stations:
Appendices E, F & G (19 pages,211 KB)
- Landscape Waste Compost Facilities:
Appendices H, I, & J (14 pages, 109KB)
- Solid Waste Planning and Recycling:
Appendices K, L & M (12pages, 197 KB)
Form 272: Report Documentation Page
(1 page, 12 KB)
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Executive Summary
This is the Illinois EPA's 17th 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 (2001, 2002 and 2003), in both gate cubic yards
and gate tons; the landfill’s certified remaining capacity for the
last two reporting dates Jan. 1, 2004, and Jan. 1, 2003, in gate
cubic yards; solid waste management fees paid to the State in
2003; 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 56 landfills, 111 transfer stations and 59
compost facilities. Any landfill, transfer station or compost site
that accepted waste in 2001, 2002 and/or 2003 is included in
the report. The list of active pollution control facilities during
2003 includes 50 landfills, 91 transfer stations and 38 compost
sites.
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 on the first day of the following year.
During 2003, 50 landfills reported receiving a total of 57 million gate cubic yards (17.3 million gate tons) of waste. This volume
was almost 2.4 million gate cubic yards more than the total
received during 2002, a 4.4 percent increase.
As of January 1, 2004, 49 landfills reported having a combined
remaining capacity of 674.6 million gate cubic yards (almost
204.4 million tons), or 26 million gate cubic yards less than on
January 1, 2003, a decline of 3.7 percent. One landfill did not
report its capacity.
Dividing wastes disposed during 2003 by capacity remaining on
January 1, 2004, indicates an overall landfill life expectancy in
Illinois of 12 years, at 2003 disposal rates and barring capacity
adjustments.
Areas to watch and monitor are the East Central Illinois area
and Chicago Metropolitan Area with four and five years of
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