Solid Waste Inspections on 138Th street

On 06/03/2008 checkup no. DOEINS14499 was performed. The Historic Dept Of Environment was asked for help due to solid waste inspections. The subject of this control was a house situated at 1220 138Th street. The detailed address of this place called Land & Lakes Composting are: 1220 E 138Th St
Chicago, Illinois
(41 644625, -87 595436). The info about this checkup was updated on 01/01/2012. An inspector responsible for this case left a note: land and lakes composting facility (class iii recycler) is permitted to handle grass, leaves, plant material, limbs, stumps, and shrubs the facility is not authorized to handle materials such as special waste, and municipal solid waste
any non-composting material that is found at the facility shall be immediately removed and containerized
windrows shall be monitored for % moisture once every two weeks, temperature weekly and percent oxygen weekly during the period of april 1-october 15 or until internal temperatures of the windrows have fallen below 100 degrees
prior to turning a windrow, the time, date, wind direction, emission potential, degree of maturity, and % moisture of the windrows need to be recorded and evaluated
vectors and dust emissions were maintained
land and lakes does have current certificate of operation permits for their processing equipment which include a grinder and a screener
good spacing between the windrows was observed and litter migration was kept under control
about 7-10 windrows were staged at this time no activity or equipment was observed at the composting facility .