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
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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