ILLINOIS
POLLUTION
CONTROL
BOARD
March
20,
1980
VILLAGE
OF
MONTGOMERY,
a Municipal Corporation,
Complainant,
v.
)
PCB 79—269
AURORA SANITARY
DISTRICT,
a Municipal Corporation,
Respondent
ORDER OF TUE BOARD
(by Dr.
Satchell):
On December 18, 1979
the Village of Montgomery
(Village)
filed a complaint naming as Respondent the Aurora Sanitary
District.
The complaint alLeges violations of Section
12 of
the Environmental Protection Act and Rules 601 and 602 of
Chapter
3:
Water Pollution.
On February
7,
1980 the Hearing
Officer allowed three persons
to intervene
as Respondents:
Aurora Venture,
a joint venture
of Metropolitan Structures,
Inc.,
and New York Project, Inc.,
a New York corporation; Urban In-
vestment
& Development Co.,
a Delaware corporation; Frederick H,
Prince and William Norman Wood Prince,
as Trustees under Trust
Indenture No,
5814222.
On February 21,
1980 the intervenors
filed
a Motion
to Strike Portions of the Complaint
arid a Motion
to Make More Definite and Certain.
On February 29,
1980 the
Village filed a response.
In paragraphs B and I of its prayer for relief the Village
has requested that the Board
do things which under Section 4(e)
of the Act are beyond its statutory authority.
Paragraph K
requests relief directed against a private non—party.
Paragraohs
B,
F, G and H request relief directed against the Environmental
Protection Agency which
is not a party.
Paragraphs
F, G and H
in
addition request modification of NPDBS Dermits aithouqh there
are
no allegations relating to these permits in the complaint.
Para-
graphs
3
and L request relief in proceedings to which the Com-
plainant is not a party.
All of the prayer for relief will be
stricken except paragraphs A and C.
The Village attached to the complaint as Exhibit A a twenty—
nine page document entitled,
“Report to the Village Board of
Montgomery on Sanitary Sewer Backups and Associated Problems
along Sherman Avenue
and Other Areas
in the Spring of 1979.~
To the extent
the
complaint relies on
Exhibit
A to define
—2—
the “southeast interceptor”
sewer and to specify dates of
violations,
etc.,
it should be made more definite.
Paragraphs
6,
7
8 and 9 contain allegations involving
instances of sewer backuDs,
There are obvious contradictions
involving
names and addresses which
should be clarified.
Fur-
thermore, ‘the complaint contains no allegation that Respondents
violated the Act or Rules by causing these backups.
Therefore
paragraphs
6,
7, 8 and 9 are stricken.
Paragraph 11 contains a general
allegation of violation of
the Act and Rules with no dates or other details specified as
required by Procedural Rule 304 (a) (2).
Paragraph 11 will there-
fore be stricken,
With the above stricken from it the complaint does not
state facts upon which the Board could enter an Order.
The com-
plaint is stricken.
This case will be subject to dismissal
unless an amended complaint is
filed within thirty-five days of
the date of this Order.
IT IS
SO ORDERED,
I,
Christan
L. Moffett,
Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
Control Board, hereby certify
the
above Order was
adopted on
the
~
day of
~
1980 by a vote of
9-~
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Illinois Pollution Control Board