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Through legislation passed in 1996 (HF2433), state monies were appropriated to cleanup
the state's largest nuisance stockpiles. The DNR has issued contracts with qualified
firms for the abatement of some of the state's oldest and most notorious stockpile sites.
Almost 10 million tires from more than 80 stockpiles have been removed - and all tires
were processed and recycled.
Landowners receiving assistance with cleanup provided either cost-share money or in-kind
work to remove other solid waste, or they completed further remediation work on the
properties. In cases where the landowner or responsible party directly profited from
the tire disposal, legal actions were taken by the DNR to receive judgements and cost
recovery. More than $4.5 million in court-ordered judgements were issued against parties
responsible for creating some of the state's largest tire stockpiles.
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Quick facts: The State's Largest Tire Piles Cleaned Up Through the Abatement Program
Between 1997 and 2002 the DNR cleaned up more than 9.4 million tires from 64 nuisance waste
tire stockpiles. These stockpiles had posed long-term risks to the public's health and the
quality of Iowa's environment.
All tires recovered from these piles were recycled into marketable products, including
tire-derived fuel (TDF) supplements for midwestern power plants and cement kilns, as tire
chips for the construction of landfill leachate collection systems and for processing into
crumb rubber for manufacturing of molded rubber products.
These cleanups were funded by the state's Waste Tire Management Fund, and of $9.8 million
spent to cleanup these piles, more than $4.6 million in court-ordered judgements were assessed
against responsible parties, and more than $250,000 in direct cost share was paid by other
landowners in consideration of the assistance provided from this fund.
Some of the largest tire piles cleaned up through the waste tire abatement program included the following:
- Ervin Stockpile, Otho, rural Webster County - 3,064,000 tires
- Grell Stockpile, Ft. Dodge - 2,239,000 tires
- Tire Tech, Muscatine - 778,000 tires
- Freland Estate, rural Marshall County - 550,000 tires
While several major scrap tire stockpiles in Iowa have been removed, funding to continue abatement activities sunset in 2007. Currently no program or funds are available to continue these cleanup efforts. The use of these funds required a matching cost-share by the site owner.
DNR Contact
Bill Blum
(515)281-8176
Bill.Blum@dnr.iowa.gov
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