ILLINOIS
    POLLUTION
    CONTROL
    BOARD
    March
    2,
    1972
    VILLAGE
    OF
    LENA
    v.
    )
    PCB
    71—384
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    Concurring Opinion by Jacob D. Dumelle
    While
    I was not present at the meeting at which the 4-0 vote
    was taken because of active duty with the Navy
    I would have voted
    to
    grant
    the
    variance
    to
    the
    Village
    of
    Lena.
    However, on March 7 the Board adopted the new Water Quality
    Standards and moved back the July 1972 date quoted in Mr. Kissel’s
    opinion to December 31,
    1973.
    Thus the variance today would be moot
    except that having been, enacted it triggers Sec.
    46 of the Environ-
    mental Protection Act and permits non—referendum bonds for this
    project.
    Now that ample time exists for the Village
    of
    Lena
    to
    meet
    the new date I would reccomend that
    the
    Village hold
    a referendum
    on this bond issue.
    Long term debt,
    especially for a small village,
    is not something to rush into.
    The public debate and examination
    that a referendum generates are valuable means of informing the
    public.
    And sometimes, cheaper or better ways
    to accomplish the
    ends of the Act and of this Board may be unearthed.
    The new Water Quality Regulations in Sec.
    404(c) and
    (f)
    also
    provide that the Village of Lena
    (if it has less than 2500 P.E.
    influent waste l~d)may use a lagoon as its third stage of treat-
    ment
    if water quality standards are not violated.
    This may be a
    less expensive method of treatment than the moving bed filter des-
    cribed.
    And the Village may also discharge an effluent of
    10 mg/l
    BOO and 12 mg/i suspended solids instead of the
    4 mg/I 1300 and 5 mg/I.
    suspended solids it is now ordered to meet.
    Again,
    it has only to
    not violate water quality standards and to file a satisfactory Project
    Completion Schedule, etc.
    to qualify for the lesser standards.
    I do not know if the Village of Lena can qualify for the less
    exacting effluent standards.
    But it should be aware that it may
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    qualify and
    if
    it
    does should petition this Board
    for release
    from the March
    2 order.
    Jacob D. Dumelle
    Board Member
    I, Christan
    L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify the above Concurring Opinion was filed on the
    ,~day
    of March,
    1972.
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    ‘Ch~ristanL. Moffett, ~Cierk
    Illinois Pollution Cántrol Board
    3—
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