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, 2010JOLIET -- 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# -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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