dupage county landfill/blackwell forest preserve

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The DuPage County landfill/Blackwell Forest Preserve site is located approximately 6 miles southwest of downtown Wheaton, near Warrenville, in DuPage County, Illinois. The site is a 40-acre landfill, centrally located within the 1200-acre Blackwell Forest Preserve. The 40 acre landfill property was purchased by the DuPage County Forest Preserve District (FPD) in 1960. FPD purchased the surrounding 1,100 acres subsequently. The Blackwell Forest Preserve is an open space containing woodlands, grasslands, wetlands and lakes used by the public for recreation (hiking, campling, boating, fishing, horseback riding). There are no residents on the FPD property. The surrounding nearby population is less than 1,000 people. The landfill was designed as a honeycomb of one acre cells lined with clay. Approximately 1.5 million cubic yards of waste were deposited in the landfill bewteen 1965 and 1973, creating Mt. Hoy, which is approximately 150 feet above the original ground surface.

• Middlesex Sampling Plant (usdoe) (Middlesex, NJ)
• Marion Pressure Treating (Marion, LA)
• Scrdi Dixiana (Cayce, SC)
• Hudson Refinery (Cushing, OK)
• Industrial Excess Landfill (Uniontown, OH)

• G&h Landfill (Utica, MI)
• Seymour Recycling Corp. (Seymour, IN)
• Haviland Complex (Town Of Hyde Park, NY)
• Sherwood Medical Co. (Norfolk, NE)
• East Mount Zion (Springettsbury Township, PA)