# WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33077`
- **Case Number:** 05-2001-0442
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL (settlement)
## Summary

THE WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL IS A  MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE    LANDFILL  THAT IS ADJACENT TO AN CONTIGUOUS WITH ANOTHER     PIECE OF PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE PRAIRIE HILL RECYCLING AND    DISPOSAL FACILITY (RDF).  BOTH THE WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL AND PRAIRIE HILL RDF ARE OWNED BY THE COUNTY OF WHITESIDE.   PRAIRIE HILL RDF IS OPERATED AS A WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY BY WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS.                                  THE WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL HAS A DESIGN CAPACITY OF     1.42 MILLION MEGAGRAMS, WHILE PRAIRIE HILL RDF HAS A MAXIMUM DESIGN CAPACITY OF 19.268 MILLION MEGAGRAMS AND 21.638       MILLION CUBIC METERS.  TOGETHER, THE TOW HAVE A DESIGN CAPA- CITY IN EXCESS OF 2.5 MILLION MEGAGRAMS AND 2.5 MILLION      CUBIC METERS.                                                  IN SEPTEMBER OF 1993, THE WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL CLOSED THE OPENING OF PRAIRIE HILL RDF, WHICH BEGAN ACCEPTING MUNI- CIPAL SOLID WASTE IN AUGUST 1006, WAS A LATERAL EXPANSION OF THE WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL THAT RESULTED IN AN INCREASE   IN THE DESIGN CAPACITY OF THE WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL, AND HENCE WAS A  MODIFICATION  OF THE WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL  WITHIN THE MEANING OF 40 C.F.R.  60.2.  THEREFORE, PRAIRIE  HILL RDF AND THE WHITESIDE COUNTY LANDFILL CONSTITUTE A      SINGLE MSW LANDFILL WITHIN THE MEANING OF 40 C.F.R.  60.751   IN 1997, PRAIRIE HILL RDF HAD AN NMOC EMISSION RATE OF     35.22 MEGAGRAMS PER YEAR IN 1997.                              WHITESIDE COUNTY, THE OWNER OF THE

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