2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:40:37 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] CDT Landfill, Joliet, Illlinois
 
IEPA: Landfill rodeos may contaminate water


By BOB OKON
Joliet Herald-News (IL)
May 12, 2010

JOLIET -- The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has warned city officials that a rodeo operation allowed in the past on top of the CDT Landfill has caused damage that could lead to contamination of groundwater in the area.

An April 26 letter to Mayor Art Schultz and the city council urges them to deny or delay zoning that would allow the rodeos to continue.

...

The letter notes that the construction of "rodeo structures," an access road, basketball court and volleyball court on the landfill has "impaired the stormwater drainage flow patterns off the landfill causing erosion rills and exposed waste in at least one area. Such damage to the landfill cover has the tendency to increase water infiltration into the landfill, which may increase the leachate levels within the landfill and therefore the potential for groundwater contamination."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/2261318,4_1_JO12_RODEO_S1-100512.article#

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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