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Will County committee briefed on landfill expansion options, faces 1.4M-cubic-yard soil relocation hurdle
Summary
A county presentation laid out two expansion options — a vertical option adding ~24½ years and a combined horizontal/vertical build adding ~36.9 years — but officials said a 1.4 million cubic-yard soil stockpile on site must be relocated before the horizontal plan can proceed.
Will County’s Landfill Committee heard technical briefings March 10 on plans to extend the life of the county’s permitted landfill and the barriers that must be overcome to do so.
A presenter for the project told the committee the existing permitted landfill covers about 223 acres, has a top elevation near 795 feet above mean sea level and roughly nine years of remaining capacity based on recent throughput. The presenter said geologic logs and new field work show about 70 feet of silts and clays over bedrock and described a potentiometric map indicating groundwater flows east to west toward the Displayplains River.
The presentation described two engineering options. “This option will provide approximately 24 and a half years of life to the county,” the Presenter said…
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