# TRI-COUNTY/ELGIN LANDFILL #1
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32320`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0297
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HARRIS BANK (settlement)
- JOSEPH BEHLES (settlement)
- TRI-COUNTY/ELGIN LANDFILL #1 (settlement)
## Summary

TRI-COUNTY/ELGIN LANDFILLS ARE FUNCTIONALLY ONE CONTIGUOUS   DISPOSAL UNIT WITH SEPARATE OWNERSHIP AND OPERATING HISTO-   RIES.  THE SITE TOTALS APPROXIMATELY 66 ACRES, OF WHICH ALL  BUT ABOUT 4 ACRES CONTAINS FILL MATERIAL.  THE SITE ACCECT-  ED SOLID AND LIQUID COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL WASTE FROM 1961    THROUGH 1976.  ALTHOUGH SOME RECORDS OF WASTE TYPE AND       QUANTITIES 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.  APPROXIMATELY, 10,000 RESIDENTS WITHIN 3 MILES OF THE SITE USE GROUNDWATER AS THEIR SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER.

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