Consultants hired by Browning-Ferris Industries of Illinois continued Wednesday night to seek to assure county officials and West Chicago-area residents that their fears of a proposed waste-transfer station were unfounded.
One witness during the third night of hearings on the BFI proposal was William McCann, the president of a real estate appraisal firm, who testified that the proposed station would have no adverse impact on property values near the site or on homes along the routes that garbage trucks would take to get to the site.
He also contended that there was a buffer area at the proposed site that would be large enough to allow odors from the transfer station to dissipate before reaching residential areas.
BFI wants to build a waste transfer station on a 6-acre site near North Avenue and Powis Road in unincorporated DuPage. The county believes at least three such transfer stations will be needed when the Mallard Lake Landfill closes next year, but finding an area willing to accept a transfer facility has proven to be a difficult task.
