ILLINOIS
    POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July
    9,
    1981
    CROOK DEVELOPMENT CO., et al.,
    Petitioner,
    PCB 80—230
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J. Anderson):
    Pursuant to Crook~sMotion for Reconsideration of May
    14,
    1981,
    on June 10,
    1981 the Board modified its Opinion and Order
    of
    Api-il
    16, 198L
    The June 10,
    1981 Order granted variance
    from Rule 962(a)
    of Chapter
    3:
    Water Pollution to allow issuance
    of “construct only’~sewer permits for 2 planned 16-unit apartment
    buildings; the April 16 Order had granted variance to allow
    issuance of construction and operation permits for one 16 unit
    building construction of which had already commenced.
    On June 25,
    1981, Crook moved for reconsideration of the
    June
    10,
    1981 Order,
    requesting issuance of a construction
    arid
    operation permit for the second 16—unit building only.
    The
    Agency’s July
    7,
    1980 Response supports grant of the requested
    modification,
    on the grounds that the increased loading from
    these
    16 units would not cause basement back—ups or sanitary
    sewer overflows.
    As the Board noted in
    its
    April
    16,
    1981 Opinion at p.
    2,
    the
    Stookey plant was placed on restricted status because of an esti-
    mated tributary organic waste
    load of
    108
    of
    its design capacity.
    While there were no complaints about Stookey’s sewer system,
    there
    were complaints about solids build—up from the plant washing out
    into the Prairie DuPont Creek during peak flow periods.
    However,
    in its Recommendations
    of February 13 and March 24,
    1981, both at p.
    5,
    the Agency presents loading data concerning
    the plant which were admittedly tabulated during a period of
    light
    rainfall and which do not accurately reflect Stookey’s infiltration!
    inflow problems.
    These figures would, however, indicate that the
    plant is organically
    loaded to 79
    of its design capacity
    rather
    than to 108
    capacity0
    43—11
    2
    Given the admitted inconsistencies of the data,
    the Board
    cannot assign great weight to
    it.
    Until
    such time as the Stookey
    plant is removed from the Agency’s restricted status list,
    or
    proof
    is submitted that the system will not in fact be operating
    beyond the design capacity, the Board declines to authorize
    operation of sewers for planned units.
    The Board reaffirms its
    Order of June 10, 1981.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    Mr. Anderson abstained.
    I, Christan L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, hezeby certify that the above Supplemental Order was
    adopted on the
    C(IL
    day of
    ____________,
    1981 by a vote of -i’~.
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    —
    Christan L. Moff,~b~Clerk
    Illinois Pollutithi~ControlBoard

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