ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September 22,
    1988
    CITY OF CHESTER,
    )
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 88—154
    )
    )
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (By J.D.
    Dumelle):
    This matter comes before the Board upon receipt of
    an Agency
    Recommendation dated September 20,
    1988.
    The Recommendation
    concerns the requests of the City of Chester
    for
    a provisional
    variance from 35 Ill.
    Adm. Code 304.120
    and 304.121, allowing the
    City to bypass water treatment facilities
    for three days while
    repair work
    is completed.
    The City of Chester
    is currently required to meet effluent
    limitations of
    20 mg/i CBOD and
    25 mg/i TSS
    (monthly averages)
    and fecal coliform limits of 400 per 100
    ml for daily maximum.
    The City of Chester
    is requesting average effluent limits
    of
    90 mg/i BOD and 121 mg/i TSS during the variance period.
    The
    Agency,
    however, believes that higher values of 100 ms/i BOD and
    130 ms/i TSS will be experienced during
    the shut—down period.
    After reviewing
    the request,
    the Illinois Environmental
    Protection Agency has determined
    that granting
    of
    this short—term
    variance would cause minimal environmental impact; ~nd that there
    are no Federal laws precluding
    the granting
    of the requested
    provisional variance.
    The Agency further concluded that denial
    of the requested variance would create an arbitrary and unrea-
    sonable hardship on Petitioner;
    and concludes by recommending
    that the requested variance be granted.
    For the reasons set forth above, the Board hereby grants
    Petitioner,
    the City of Chester,
    a variance from the limitations
    set forth
    at 35
    Ill. Adm. Code 304.120 and 304.121 subject
    to the
    following conditions:
    a)
    This variance shall commence upon initiation of
    bypassing of the treatment plant and continue
    for
    a
    period of
    3 days
    or until
    the treatment plant
    is
    returned to service whichever occurs
    first.
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    b)
    Petitioner
    shall notify Barb Conner via telephone at
    217/782—9720 when the bypassing
    of the treatment plant
    is begun and when the plant
    is returned
    to service.
    Each telephone notification shall be confirmed within
    5
    days with
    a written notice submitted to the following
    address:
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Division of Water Pollution Control
    Compliance Assurance Section
    2200 Churchill Road
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield,
    IL
    62794—9276
    Attn:
    Barb Conner
    C)
    During
    the period of
    this variance,
    the effluent
    discharged shall
    be limited
    to
    100 mg/i BOD and 130
    mg/i TSS
    (daily average)
    and there shall
    be
    no fecal
    coliform limits on the Petitioner’s effluent.
    d)
    Petitioner
    shall sample and perform laboratory analyses
    as required
    in NPDES permit #1L0028045.
    e)
    Petitioner shall submit
    to the Agency by November
    1,
    1988
    a plan which includes a schedule for treatment
    facility modifications
    to prevent the need for total
    plant bypassing in the future.
    f)
    Petitioner
    shall return
    the wastewater treatment plant
    to service as quickly as possible.
    g)
    Within 10 days of the date of the Board’s Order,
    Petitioner
    shall execute a Certificate of Acceptance
    and Agreement which shall be sent to Mark
    T. Books at
    the address indicated above.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of
    the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify that the a~oveOrder was adopted on
    the
    ‘~
    day
    of
    ___________________,
    1988 by
    a vote
    of
    ___________________.
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    Dorothy M.9’unn
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    92—498

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