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Meetings commence on landfill application I'age 13 -.PLAIMJEALKR-HEKALL). VI KI»ESDA\ . >1A\ 22.1985 By Angela Burden Plalndealer Herald News Service The chief executive officer of a firm applying for a landfill in Algonquin Township testified Monday that his company would negotiate with McHenry County on the lease or offer of the $9 million proposed landfill site. Ronald S. Murray, president and director of Laidlaw Waste Systems, indicated the firm would either buy the site and give it to the county, or offer the option it has to lease the property to the county for operation of a landfill. However, the offer was conditional that Laidlaw receive the exclusive right to operate a landfill on the site. Laidlaw has applied for the operation of a sanitary landfill on a 163-acre site along Pyott Road. About 35 objectors from the Algonquin-Lake In The Hills area were on hand at the public hearing on the proposed landfill conducted by the county's Regional Pollution Control Facility Siting Committee. No action was taken at the commencement of the hearings when a motion was filed on behalf of the villages of Lake In The Hills and Algonquin claiming the application was defective. Richard Flood,' lawyer representing both villages, moved to stop the hearings because a portion of the proposed landfill site lies within the boundaries of Lake In The Hills and comes within the jurisdiction of that municipality. Flood said that the landfill application was defective because the owner of the property which lies in the Lake In The Hills jurisdiction had not signed the application and because Laidlaw had not shown the beneficiary of the trust which controls the remaining property. "We feel the committee cannot continue the hearing until these errors are correc­ ted," Flood said. Assistant State's Attorney Paul Ryske, representing the county committee, explained that the hearing officer does not have the authority to remedy, defects in an application and the hearing at McHenry County Fairgrounds continued on schedule. Hearing Officer David Ackemann said that he could not strike the application as requested by Flood, but he did accept the motion into the record. ( Murray was challenged on the care of the landfill aher the close of the site following 20 years of operation. He testified that Laidlaw would be willing to finance a monitoring period for as many years as necessary. Questioned by James Yoho, representing a citizens op­ position group, Murray reiterated that if the landfill takes 50 years of monitoring, "we'll ensure it is done. Laidlaw is committed at this point in time." Objector Karen Burns of Lake In Tlie Hills asked Murray if Laidlaw would spend $200 million if the landfill site "goes bad" 10 years after it closes and Murray said the firm was willing to make that kind of commitment. Plalndealer Herald photo by Anthony Oliver This poor pooch found himself on the way to jail last Thursday in the custody of the McHenry County Department of Public Health, Animal Control division. The van bearing its prize catch was traveling west on Elm Street toward Woodstock late that afternoon. OsS. "f 6 Vfi % ° I O % v»0 5 s. » 3 Trl/S i <»c* a i n mm S--0-8 r f f M l i • • Vt • • § =•" = XP-S :3 •••!••••••••••••••••••••• ?8 •? r o ̂ ft