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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has issued an Areawide Air Pollution Action Day for Sunday, July 19th. This is in addition to the ongoing Chicago Air Pollu tion Action Day in effect today July 18th. This alert includes all of Illinois’ Air Quality Index (AQI) forecast sectors, except Metro-East St. Louis. Visit www.AirNow.gov to stay up to date on current conditions. 

Orchard Hills and Winnebago Landfills

Ogle and Winnebago Counties

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) has prepared this Fact Sheet to provide information about landfill odors that residents have been experiencing from the Orchard Hills and Winnebago Landfills. Fact Sheet updates will be distributed to keep area residents better informed as landfill gas mitigation activities progress at each landfill. The Illinois EPA issued a Violation Notice (VN) for each landfill on February 4, 2010 due to odor issues.

Fact Sheets and VNs

Contact

For more information, please contact the Illinois EPA Office of Community Relations. Additional documents not available on this webpage may be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request or through IEPA Document Explorer.