Kankakee County Sheriff And Union Bosses Pushing Fred Barbara Dump. Facts and Fiction.

Proposed 236 Acre, 200 feet high Chicago Regional Garbage Dump.

December 30, 2008

Listen to Kankakee County Sheriff Tim Bukowski's pro Fred Barbara and Tom Volini garbage dump comments during the December, 2008 Criminal Justice Committee Meeting. Pictures were added to the audio recording. The audio recording was obtained from the county through a Freedom of Information request. Normally we video tape these meetings but our volunteer was unable to attend so we had to do a Freedom of Information request to get the county's audio recording.

Click on the pictures below.

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Kankakee County Sheriff & Local Union Bosses

Fiction The Facts

Not in a 100 year flood plain	Actually in the 100 year flood plain according to IDNR
Sheriff Claims old landfill closer to river than BV landfill	Dump to be dug right into the aquifer that feeds rivers.
Sheriff claims aqua can filter any contaminates	Up to 80,000 chemical go into dump-they can’t even detect them
“ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “”” “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “	Volatile Organic Chemicals render a water source unusable.
Sheriff-Landfill liner will prevent leaking	EPA found 86% of landfills had polluted groundwater below
Inverse Gradient theory of design keeps leachate our of water	Landfill inverse gradient design, requires stable water, Water table varies by tens of feet.
Inverse Gradient theory of design keeps leachare out of water	3 irrigation wells near landfill will permanently lower water TBL
Inverse Gradient theory of design keeps leachate out of water	Heavier leachate above will leak into water below-contaminate
Good location for a landfill	Illinois Geological Survey says worst site in the county
Will protect public health, safety welfare.	Supreme Court and Major Scientists say it is a threat to health & safety. Same for IPCB before Novak took over under Governor’s “Pay for Play”
Sheriff-landfill won’t leak-it has a double liner	FED EPA-All landfills will leak even with most advanced Liners
Contamination will be detected by monitoring wells	Not reliable-groundwater pollution will have occurred first.
Won’t leak into our water supply	Leachate remains active for 1000s of years, Cheery and Freeze
Good for our County	One of largest producers of Methane Gas-leading greenhouse gas.
Good for our County	EPA 83% of landfills tested emitted toxic and putrid methane
Good for our County	163 landfill studied, 90% contamination rate of groundwater
Good for our County	Texas A@M found MSW sites as toxic as Hazardous Waste sites
Volatile Organic Chemicals are no problem.	Four drops of TCE will make 20,000 gals of water undrinkable.
Volatile Organic Chemicals are no problem	VOC from water from love canal, to cities all over cause death.
Landfill won’t leak	Other leaking South Elgin, Dupage County, Hilllside, Pontiac, Kankakee Closed dump, Wauconda, Settlers Hill, Feddeler.
OK site for a landfill	DR. G Fred Lee-Worlds Leading Landfill Authority says complex hydro Geology-makes this site unsuitable for a landfill-will pollute water
Ok site for a landfill	Hydro-geologist Stuaart Cravens says landfill design is the same as digging a stone quarry to install a landfill into a major regional aquifer. Quarry dumping is illegal in Illinois.
OK site for a landfill	Dr Sixberry says site not located in a hydro-geologic setting capable of protecting humans and environment.
OK site for a landfill	“We know this landfill will leak and it will contaminate your water supply-but the operator has a lot of money invested.” (1/31.2006) IEPA representative statement.
Pollution Control Board approved this-must be OK	Turns out this dump approval was a Pay-for-Play deal. Novak pays Gov. Blago 25K to head IPCB-causes IPCB to reverse it’s earlier denial to help Mayor Daley and Governor Blagojevich's dump developer friends get their dump then Novak resigns from IPCB and receives huge boost in state pension after a huge salary increase during his short term stay as Illinois Pollution Control Board Chairman.

Local union leaders are lobbing hard to get county board members to vote No to appealing the second Barbara/Volini dump application to the Illinois Supreme Court. They did the same thing when it came time for the board to decided on whether to appeal the first Barbara/Volini dump application to the Illinois Supreme Court. The county did appeal and they won!

This time the union is trying to sweet talk the board. Please see the pictures below. They are pictures of a portion of the 28, 24 oz. boxes of Gayety candy delivered to the county board members mail boxes at the county administration building. According to the county board members OUTRAGE has talked to, the union has never done this before nor has anyone else.

Each box is labeled Season's Greetings from I.U.O.E. Local 150. They cost $45.75 each according to the Gayety candy web site. Here is the link. http://www.gayetys.com/holiday2.html.

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