Centralia Environmental Services, Inc., Prior-Blackwell, and Prior 1,2,3 and 4
The three landfills are located in Marion County approximately two miles south of Centralia, Illinois on Perrine Avenue south of Webster Creek. The Burlington Northern Railroad bisects the landfill areas. South and west of the landfills are several residences. The Centralia landfill sites are three of thirty-three (33) abandoned landfills that Illinois EPA identified in 1998 as critical environmental problems that need to be addressed. In 1999, Governor George H. Ryan and Illinois lawmakers included $50 million in the Illinois FIRST program to address problems posed by these abandoned landfills.