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Annual Landfill Capacity Report

Eighteenth Annual Landfill
 Capacity Report - 2004

Reporting Period: Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2004

The capacity remaining in Illinois landfills increased 46.2 percent.  The available space is more than adequate and should serve our residents for at least another 18 years. In this, the Agency’s 18th 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 2004, the number of active landfills in Illinois accepting waste was 52. Years of waste disposal remaining for these landfills, however, varied tremendously from region to region; ranging from 11 years in the Chicago Metropolitan area to 58 years in Southern Illinois.

During 2004, Indian Creek Landfill #2, Hopedale, received a significant modification permit and re-opened. Two new landfills opened in early 2004: these were Prairie View Recycling and Disposal Facility, Wilmington and Perry Ridge Landfill, DuQuoin.

Two other landfills are under development in Atkinson and Marion.

Six landfills that expanded during 2004 include Envirofil of Illinois Inc, Macomb; Livingston Landfill, Pontiac; Onyx Orchard Hills Landfill Inc., Davis Junction; Saline County Landfill, Harrisburg; Southern Illinois Regional Landfill, DeSoto; and Winnebago Reclamation Services, Rockford. Additionally, on June 6, 2005 Roxana Landfill Authority, Roxana, was permitted to expand.

In 2004, 98 active transfer stations and 40 active compost facilities are available to help manage waste generated in Illinois.

Inspections of waste management facilities are conducted by personnel from Illinois EPA’s seven regional field offices and our delegated partners. Our delegated partners include 18 counties, 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, and investigate citizen complaints about illegal dumping of waste.

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.

Douglas P. Scott
Director
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Executive Summary


This is the Illinois EPA’s 18th 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 (2002, 2003 and 2004), 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, 2005, in gate cubic yards; solid waste management fees paid to the State in 2004; 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, 103 transfer stations and 47 compost facilities. Any landfill, transfer station or compost site that was permitted to accept waste in 2002, 2003 and/or 2004 is included in the report. The list of active waste management facilities during 2004 includes 52 landfills, 98 transfer stations and 40 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 2004, 52 landfills reported receiving a total of almost 53.8 million gate cubic yards (16.3 million gate tons) of waste. This volume was almost 3.3 million gate cubic yards less than the total received during 2003, a 5.8 percent decrease.

As of January 1, 2005, 51 landfills reported having a combined remaining capacity of almost 986.5 million gate cubic yards (more than 298.9 million gate tons), or 311.8 million gate cubic yards more than on January 1, 2004, an increase of 46.2 percent.

Dividing wastes disposed during 2004 by capacity remaining on January 1, 2005, indicates an overall landfill life expectancy in Illinois of 18 years at 2004 disposal rates and barring capacity adjustments.

New or upgraded landfills in: Region 2: Will County (Wilmington), Region 3: Tazewell County (Hopedale), and Region 7: Perry County (DuQuoin) are open. Two landfills are under development in Atkinson and Marion.

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