ILLINOIS POLLUTION
CONTROL
i3OARD
July 10, 1975
LEWIS AND CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE,
Community College District #536,
Petitioner,
vs.
)
PCB 75—164
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
Respondent.
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by Mr. Henss):
Petitioner,
a community college district located in
Godfrey, Madison County,
Illinois, requests variance from
Rule 404(f) of the Water Pollution Control Regulations.
Under that Rule the effluent from the College sewage treat—
merit plant was not to exceed
4 mg/i
I3OD or
5 mg/i of suspended
solids after December 31,
1973.
Variance previously granted
to the College expired on June
20,
1975.
(See PCB 72-246 and
PCB 74—81)
The Lewis and Clark sewage treatment plant is designed
to serve 750 P.E.
and presently serves 500 P.E.
Effluent
from the sewaqe treatment plant
is discharged to an unnamed
intermittent stream about 0.6 mile above the confluence with
Rocky Fork Creek.
Petitioner plans
to connect
to the Godfrey
Township sewage treatment plant after completion of construction
work on the Godfrey Township facility.
In order to expedite
this connection Petitioner had been ordered
to make application
to the Agency for a Conditional Installation Permit for the
proposed interceptor as soon as Godfrey Township had commenced
its own project.
Petitioner now states that it was unable to
make application for the Conditional Installation Permit during
the prior variance since the Godfrey Township Utility Board
did not execute contracts for construction of its sewage treat-
ment plant during that time.
Petitioner has been informed that
the Godfrey treatment plant project has received state approval
and will receive approval
from the U.
S. Government by June 1975.
Construction of the Godfrey facility will commence about
September
1,
1975 and is expected to be completed in about 18
months.
The College will apparently connect to the Godfrey
facility on or before February
1, 1977.
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Lewis
and Clark Community College alleges that its
effluent has not exceeded the limitations imposed
in the
prior Board Orders,
i.e.
20 mg/i BOD,
25 mg/i suspended
solids and 400 fecal coliforrn/l00 ml.
Petitioner
also states
that it has not increased the waste
load to its sewage
treatment plant beyond the design capacity during that time.
Agency grab samples taken at the Petitioner~s treatment plant
show that the effluent has exceeded the allowable
limits on
several occasions.
From the grab sample results shown below
it can be seen that the College has had difficulty in meeting
the fecal coliform limit:
DATE
BOD
SS
FECAL COLIFORM
November 14,
1974
43
80
1,000
January
9,
1975
5
22
1,900
February 13, 1975
9
7
4,700
April 15,
1975
11
2
13,000.
Petitioner’s monthly operating reports
indicate general
compliance with the effluent limitations which had been estab-
lished in the variance cases:
DATE
BOB
55
August,
1974
2
12
September,
1974
4
25
October,
1974
6
30
November,
1974
5
35
December,
1974
12
25
January, l~75
6
15
February,
1975
25
25
March,
1975
12
25
Although Petitioner has not always met the limitations,
the
Agency believes that Petitioner has shown good faith in its
efforts
to achieve compliance.
The Agency recommends grant of
the variance subject to the same conditions which were applied
in PCB 74—81.
We believe that Lewis and Clark Community College has made
a good faith effort and that the slowness of the compliance
program is due to delays in funding of
the Godfrey sewage treat-
ment project.
The delay
in achieving compliance has been through
no fault of Petitioner.
We
shall grant the variance but require
that Petitioner communicate with the Environmental Protection
Agency regarding the fecal coliform problem and follow the Agency
recommendations
to the extent possible.
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This variance will be allowed until February
1,
1977.
This Opinion constitutes the f4ndinqs of fact and con-
clusions of law of the Illinois Pollution Control Board.
ORDER
It is the Order of the Pollution Control Board that Lewis
and Clark Community College be granted variance from Rule 404(f)
of
the Water Pollution Control Regulations from June
20, 1975
until February
1,
1977 subject to the following conditions:
1.
Effluent from Petitioner’s sewage treatment plant
shall not exceed 20 mg/l BUD and 25 mg/l suspended solids
on a monthly average.
2.
Effluent from Petitioner’s sewage treatment plant
shall not exceed 400 fecal coliform/l00 ml.
Petitioner
shall communicate with the Agency in an effort
to insure
that the fecal coliform limitation
is met.
3.
Petitioner
shall not increase the waste load of
its sewage treatment plant beyond its designed capacity.
4.
Petitioner shall make application
to the Agency
for a Conditional Installation Permit for the proposed
interceptor as soon as
the construction permit has been
issued to the Godfrey Township Utility Board and all
contracts
for construction of the Godfrey sewage treat-
ment plant have been executed.
When the Conditional
Installation permit is
issued, Petitioner shall construct
the proposed interceptor line so that it
is completed at,
or prior
to, the time the Godfrey sewage treatment plant
is placed
in operation.
I,
Christan L.
Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board,
hereby certif
th
above Opinion and Order
wa~
adopted
the
/bl~1
day of
__________,
1975 by a vote of
~ 0
Christan L. Moff?)~iClerk
Illinois Pollutiófi Control Board
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