Why did the District build landfills at Mallard Lake and Greene Valley?
On October 3, 1972, the DuPage County Board passed a resolution permitting landfills at Mallard Lake, Greene Valley and East Branch Reservoir forest preserve. The Forest Preserve District’s Board of Commissioners passed the same resolution on October 19, 1972. The joint resolution succeeded because the county needed waste-disposal sites; the District had land that could not be incorporated into a municipality; the county had the authority, at the time, to regulate waste disposal; and the District wanted to construct recreational hills. In the end, an East Branch Reservoir landfill was never constructed.
