Landfill should not be expanded

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It seems that our county board members have forgotten who voted them into office. They choose to ignore the wishes of their constituents and seem to be favoring landfill expansion, even though it more than doubles the size of the existing landfill, from 102 acres of present landfill to 123 more acres.

The reason the county board gives for this expansion is that the cost of garbage pickup will go up for everyone in the county if it is not allowed. Waste Management (the largest waste hauler in the country) does not use the Morris landfill, they haul to Joliet or Wilmington. Morris is one of the few communities in Grundy County that does not use Waste Management. The cost issue will affect only a handful of Grundy County residents.

As for the residents of Morris not having to pay for garbage pickup, as we have been lead to believe, there is a tax levy on record that states Morris receives, from tax dollars of its residents, $324,000 a year for garbage.

The county board members responsibility and obligation is to the residents of Grundy County, not to a private entity whose owner(s) do not even live in Grundy County.

Please call your board members and tell them “no” to expansion.

Ken Daggett
Morris, IL

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