# TRI-COUNTY/ELGIN LANDFILL #2
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32319`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0296
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TRI-COUNTY/ELGIN LANDFILL #2 (settlement)
## Summary

THE TRI-COUNTY/ELGIN LANDFILLS ARE FUNCTIONALLY ONE CONTI-   GUOUS DISPOSAL UNIT WITH SEPARATE OWNERSHIP AND OPERATING    HISTORIES.  THE SITE TOTALS APPROXIMATELY 66 ACRES, OF       WHICH ALL BUT 4 ACRES CONTAINS FILL MATERIAL.  THE SITE      ACCEPTED SOLID AND LIQUID COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL WASTE FROM   1961 THROUGH 1976.  ALTHOUGH SOME RECORDS OF WASTE TYPE AND  QUANTITITES EXIST FOR THE TRI-COUNTY LANDFILL, LOCATION OF   HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL IS NOT KNOWN FOR EITHER LANDFILL.   IN 1984, THE U.S. EPA DETECTED VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS    (VOCS) IN GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS DOWNGRADIENT OF THE   SITE.  APPPROXIMATELY, 10,000 RESIDENTS WITH 3 MILES OF THE  SITE USE GROUNDWATER AS THEIR SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER.        FOR ENFORCEMENT HISTORY SEE 05-2000-0297 (SCR. 8).

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