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April 13, 2008
Good News! Mayoral candidate Tim Schmidt opposes City of Kankakee Mayor Green backed garbage dump in Otto Township.
OUTRAGE hopes everyone had the opportunity to read The Daily Journal, Sunday April 13, page A-8. There you will find an interview with local businessman Tim Schmidt who has announced his intentions to run for Mayor of the City of Kankakee. The municipal election is Spring, 2009.
Journal reporter Lee Provost asked Tim Schmidt various questions including the following. "Do you support the proposed Otto Township Landfill?"
Tim Schmidt's reply, "Absolutely not. Our community has three great assets: rail, water and land. Very few communities have this. We have a great water source in the Kankakee River. Very few communities can say they have a water source like that. I'll be damned if I would put a landfill anywhere near it. ...If we damage, destroy or harm the Kankakee River the cost of that would far out weigh any revenue a landfill would bring in."
Tim's Schmidt comments sum up what POWER and OUTRAGE have been trying to get across to local government and the public over the years since the City and the County dump proposals were first announced. Hopefully as the campaign unfolds, Tim Schmidt and the other candidates, who announce they are running for Mayor of the City of Kankakee, will agree on opposing Mayor Green's push for a garbage dump in Otto Township. This is very important to all of us no matter where we live.
Especially since we have heard, dump developers Barbara & Volini are planning to come back to the City council with a third dump application for the same location. Unbelievable as that may sound, Mayor Green in his last few months as Mayor may try again to site the Barbara-Volini 236 acre, 200 feet high garbage mountain next to Minnie Creek which drains directly into the river, upstream from the Aqua, Illinois water intake pipe. This proposal will dig several feet into the aquifer where garbage will be dumped to form the base for the mountain of garbage. I kid you not!! Get the details of how risky this proposal is at www.k3power.org. Click on experts report.