ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

June

16, 1988

VILLAGE OF BLUFFS,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 88—101

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by JD.

Dumelle):

This matter comes before the Board

upon receipt

of a June

15, 1988, Agency Recommendation.

The Agency recommends

the Board

grant the requested provisional variance from 35

Ill. Adm. Code

304.120(a).

Petitioner,

the Village of Bluffs owns and operates

a 0.135

MGD,

DAF wastewater

treatment facility.

Effluent

is discharged

to Wolfrun Creek, Coon Run Creek,

and

the Illinois River.

Petitioner has decided

to install new aeration equipment,

requiring the lowering

of water levels

in

3 lagoon cells.

Therefore,

a variance

is needed for dewatering wastewater from

the lagoons.

Because dewatering of

the lagoons

is essential

for

completion of necessary work,

the Illinois Environmental

Protection Agency agrees with Petitioner,

that denial

of the

requested provisional variance would work an arbitrary and

unreasonable

hardship

on

the

Village

of Bluffs.

The Agency also

agreed that environmental

impact would be minimal and that no

public

water

supplies

would be adversely affected by granting the

requested provisional variance.

ORDER

The Board hereby grants the Village

of Bluffs

a provisional

variance from 35

Ill. Adm. Code 304.120(a) subject

to the

following conditions:

a.

Variance shall commence upon June

17,

1988 or when

dewatering of the

lagoons

is begun, which ever occurs

first.

b.

Variance shall

terminate when all

the wastewater which

can be drained by gravity (top five feet)

is discharged

or

June

30,

1988,

whichever

occurs

first.

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c.

Petitioner’s effluent

shall be

limited

to

50 mg/l BOD

and 75 mg/i TSS, both monthly averages.

d.

Petitioner shall

sample their effluent weekly

for the

parameters mentioned

in their NPDES permit and report

their results on their DMR.

e.

Petitioner

shall notify Bud Bridgewater of the Agency’s

Springfield Regional Office via telephone at 217/786—

6892 when dewatering

is begun, when the work

is

completed and when the lagoons are refilling.

Written

notification confirming

the telephone notification

shall be submitted within

5 days thereof.

Written

confirmation of each notification shall

be sent within

5 days

to the following addresses:

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

4500

South 6th Street

Springfield, Illinois 62706

ATTN:

Bud Bridgewater

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

Compliance Assurance Section

2200 Churchill Road

P.O.

Box 19276

Springfield, Illinois 62794—9276

ATTN:

Mark T. Books

f.

Petitioner

shall

at all times continue

to disinfect its

effluent discharge.

g.

Petitioner shall

operate and maintain the wastewater

treatment facility so

as

to produce the best effluent

practicable.

h.

Petitioner

shall, within 10 days of the date of

this

Order, execute a Certificate

of Acceptance and

Agreement which

shall be sent

to Mark

T. Books at the

address indicated above.

This variance shall

be void

if Petitioner

fails

to

execute and forward the certificate within

the ten day

period.

The ten day period shall

be held in abeyance

during

any period that this matter

is being appealed.

The form of said Certification shall

be

as follows:

CERTIFICATION

I,

(We), The Village of Bluffs,

having read the Order of the

Illinois Pollution Control Board,

in PCB 88—101,

dated June 16,

1988,

understand and accept the said Order,

realizing that such

acceptance renders all terms

and conditions thereto binding

and

enforceable.

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Petitioner

By:

Authorized Agent

Title

Date

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy M.

Gunn,

Clerk

of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby certify

that the above Op~ion and Order was

adopted on the

/~~-

day

of

_____________,

1988 by

a vote

of

_____________.

Dorothy MJGunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board

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