Quinn: Landfill’s PCB approval may be withdrawn

By Washington Examiner
Published July 22, 2014 11:35pm ET
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Quinn: Landfill’s PCB approval may be withdrawn
FILE - In this June 20, 2012 file photo, construction is seen going on at the Clinton Landfill near Clinton, Ill. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn believes approvals the central Illinois county gave to the landfill did not include the potential storage of toxic PCBs the facility's owner now wants to store. If that's true, Quinn spokesman Dave Blanchette said Tuesday, July 22, 2014, that state law might allow the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its approval of the plan to store toxic waste at Clinton. The landfill sits over the Mahomet aquifer, a source of drinking water for thousands of people across central Illinois. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File) | Seth Perlman

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn believes the state of Illinois may be able to withdraw its approval of a plan to store toxic waste in a central Illinois landfill because local officials may never have signed off on the proposal.

A subsidiary of Area Disposal in Peoria owns the Clinton Landfill and wants to store PCBs dredged from toxic cleanup sites in the region. But the landfill sits over the Mahomet Aquifer, a drinking water source for 750,000 people.

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