BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF:
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND
EFFLUENT
LIMITATrONS
FOR
THE
CHICAGO AREA WATERWAY SYSTEM
AND THE LOWER DES PLAINES RIVER:
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
35 Ill.
Adm. Code Parts
301,302,303 and 304
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R08-9
(Rulemaking - Water)
NOTICE OF FILING
To:
ALL COUNSEL OF RECORD
(Service List Attached)
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE
that on the
14
th
Day of July, 2008, I filed with the Office of
the Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board the attached July 7, 2008 Correspondence from
the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency, copies
of which are hereby served upon you.
Dated: July 14, 2008
Fredric
P. Andes
Carolyn
S. Hesse
David
T.
Ballard
BARNES
&
THORNBURG LLP
Suite 4400
One North Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606
(312) 357-1313
By:
METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION
DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
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PROOF OF
SERVICE
The undersigned, a non-attorney, certifies, under penalties of perjury pursuant to 735
ILCS 5/1-109, at that true copies of the forgoing Notice of Filing and July 7, 2008
Correspondence from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
of Greater Chicago to the
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency were mailed via U.S. Mail, first class postage prepaid,
from One North Wacker Drive, Suite 4400, Chicago, Illinois to All Counsel of Record on the
attached Service List, on this
14
th
Day of July, 2008.
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Richard 1. Kissel
Roy M. Harsch
Drinker, Biddle, Gardner, Carton
Suite 3700
191 N. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606-1698
SERVICE LIST
R08-9 (Rulemaking - Water)
Claire A. Manning
Brown,
Hay
&
Stephens LLP
700 First Mercantile Bank Building
205 South Fifth St., P.O. Box 2459
Springfield, IL 62705-2459
Deborah
J.
Williams, Assistant Counsel
Stefanie
N. Diers, Assistant Counsel
IEPA
Division
of Legal Counsel
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
Kevin G. Desharnais
Thomas W. Dimond
Thomas
V. Skinner
Mayer, Brown LLP
71 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606-4637
Robert VanGyseghem
City
of Geneva
1800 South Street
Geneva,
IL 60134-2203
Matthew
J. Dunn, Chief
Office of the Attorney General
Environmental Bureau North
Suite 1800
69 West Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60602
Bernard Sawyer
Thomas Granto
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6001
W. Pershing Road
Cicero, IL 60804
James
L.
Daugherty, District Manager
Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District
700 West End Avenue
Chicago Heights, IL 60411
Katherine D. Hodge
Monica T. Rios
Thomas Safley
Hodge Dwyer Zeman
3150 Roland Avenue
P.O. Box 5776
Springfield, IL 62705-5776
Charles W. Wesselhoft
James T. Harrington
Ross
&
Hardies
Suite 2500
150 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601-7567
Jerry Paulsen
Cindy Skrukrud
McHenry County Defenders
132 Cass Street
Woodstock, IL 60098
Albert Ettinger
Freeman, Freeman
&
Salzman
401 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Lisa Frede
Chemical Industry Council
of Illinois
Suite 239
2250 East Devon Avenue
Des Plaines, IL 60018-4509
Sharon Neal
Commonwealth Edison Company
125 South Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60603
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American Water Company Central Region
727 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63141
Keith
1. Harley
Elizabeth Schenkier
Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc.
4
th
Floor
205 West Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60606
Fred
L.
Hubbard
Attorney
at Law
16 West Madison
P.O. Box
12
Danville, IL 61834
W.e. Blanton
Blackwell Sanders LLP
Suite 1000
4801 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
Traci Barkley
Prarie Rivers Networks
Suite 6
1902 Fox Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
James Huff, Vice President
Huff
&
Huff, Inc.
Suite 3300
915 Harger Road
Oak Brook,
IL 60523
Cathy Hudzik
City
of Chicago - Mayor's Office of
Intergovernmental Affairs
City
Hall- Room 406
121
N.
LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60602
Irwin Polls
Ecological Monitoring and Assessment
3206 Maple Leaf Drive
Glenview, IL 60025
Margaret
P. Howard
Hedinger Law Office
2601 South Fifth Street
Springfield, IL 62703
Frederick
D. Keady, P.E., President
Vermilion Coal Company
1979 Johns Drive
Glenview, IL 60025
Georgia Vlahos
Naval Training Center
2601 A Paul Jones Street
Great Lakes, IL 60088-2845
Dennis
L.
Duffield
Director
of Public Works
&
Utilities
City
of Joliet, Department of Public
Works
&
Utilities
921 E. Washington Street
Joliet, IL 60431
Ann Alexander, Sr. Attorney
Natural Resources Defense Council
Suite 609
101 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
Beth Steinhorn
2021 Timberbrook
Springfield, IL 62702
Dr. Thomas
J. Murphy
DePaul University
2325
N. Clifton Street
Chicago, IL 60614
Susan
M. Franzetti
Franzetti Law Firm P.C.
Suite 3600
10 S. LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603
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Marc Miller, Senior Policy Advisor
Jamie
S. Caston, Policy Advisor
Office
of Lt. Governor Pat Quinn
Room 414 State House
Springfield, IL 62706
Albert Ettinger, Senior Staff Attorney
Jessica Dexter
Environmental Law
&
Policy Center
Suite 1300
35 E. Wacker Drive
Chicago,
IL 60601
Tom Muth
Fox Metro Water Reclamation District
682 State Route
31
Oswego, IL 60543
Jack Darin
Sierra Club
Illinois Chapter
Suite 1500
70
E. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60601-7447
Marie Tipsord, Hearing Officer
John Therriault, Assistant Clerk
Illinois Pollution Control Board
100
W. Randolph Street
Suite 11-500
Chicago, IL 60601
Stacy Meyers-Glen
Openlands
Suite 1650
25 East Washington
Chicago, Illinois 60602
Susan Hedman
Andrew Annstrong
Environmental Counsel Environmental Bureau
Suite 1800
69 West Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60602
Vicky McKinley
Evanston Environment Board
223 Grey Avenue
Evanston, IL 60202
Kenneth W. Liss
Andrews Environmental Engineering
3300 Ginger Creek Drive
Springfield, IL 62711
Bob Carter
Bloomington
Nonnal Water
Reclamation District
P.O. Box 3307
Bloomington, IL 61702-3307
Kay Anderson
American Bottoms RWTF
One American Bottoms Road
Sauget, IL 62201
Kristy
A.
N. Bulleit
Brent Fewell
Hunton
&
Williams LLC
1900 K Street,
NW
Washington, DC 20006
Jeffrey C. Fort
Ariel
J. Tesher
Sonnenschein Nath
&
Rosenthal LLP
7800 Sears Tower
233
S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606-6404
Ronald M. Hill
Margaret
T. Conway
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
of
Greater Chicago
100
E. Erie Street, Room 301
Chicago, Illinois 60611
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O'Keefe Lyons
&
Hynes, LLC
Suite 4100
30 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois 60602
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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
100 EAST ERIE STREET
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60611.3154
312-751'5600
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BOAllD OF COMMISSIONERS
Terrance
J.
O'Brien
PrtIS/dent
I<Illhleen There,e MlIll/lY
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President
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Ch.ltman 01
Flnence
FrankAvlla
Patricia Horton
Balbara
J.
McGowan
Cynthie M. Santos
Oebra Shore
Patricia Young
Louis Kolllas,
P,E., BCEE
Director of Research and Development
312-751-5190
Ms. Marcia Willhite, Bureau Chief
Illinois Envirorunental Protection Agency
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P. O. Box 19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
July 7, 2008
SUBJECT; Effluent Temperature Measurement Adjustment at the Stickney Water
Reclamation Plant
As you are aware, the Metropolitan Water Recla,mation District of Greater Chicago
(District) transmitted a letter
to Mr. Rob Sulski of your staff on June 4, 2007 concerning
temperature issues. Enclosed with the letter were effluent temperature data and associated
statistics
for the North Side, Calumet
and
Stickney Water Reclamation Plants (WRPs) for the
years 2001 through 2006. The District has concluded that some
of those data from the Stickney
\VRP -
in
particular, data from the years 2005 and 2006 - are of uncertain reliability. This letter
is
to infbrm the Agency of the District'srecent conclusions on this issue and to explain the basis
for those conclusions.
The Stickney
WRP (SWRP) has historically used remote sensors for temperature
measurement. Through 2004, the SWRP effluent was monitored with a remote sensor located
near the waterway, outside
of the facility fence-line. Due to concerns about the security of the
sampling equipment, in 2005 the SWRP effluent sampler was moved inside the fence-line, to a
location next to the effluent channel. The remote temperature sensor was not available once the
effluent sampling location was relocated. From 2005 until the present, the temperature was
measured with a temperature probe auxiliary to the
pH electrode inside this new sampling
structure. The temperature measurement was taken from either the
on-line sampler flow or a
grab sample from the effluent
channel.
Because the District is not required to measure temperature for regulatory compliance
purposes, there has been
no quality assurance check on the data collection or the temperature
measurement device. After reviewing the data and methods used to detennine effluent
temperature from 2005 to present,
we feel that these data are not reliable and therefore should be
excluded from the database that is being used to develop new water quality standards for the
Chicago Area Waterways System.
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Ms. Marcia Willhite
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July 7, 2008
SUBJECT: Effluent Temperature Measurement Adjustment at the Stickney
Water
Reclamation Plant
To address the concerns with the effluent temperature measurements, the SWRP effluent
temperature
will now be reported using the data collected from the continuous monitor in the
SvVRP effluent channel.
This temperature sensor and accompanying transmitter will be
calibrated to laboratory standards using a NIST-calibrated thermometer. The calibration will
include multiple points to ensure linearity. After the initial calibration, an annual calibration
program
will be implemented for both sensor and transmitter, in accordance with Standard
Methods.
To assess the potential impact
of excluding the 2005-2006 data, we have prepared two
tables, which are enclosed. Table 1 shows the data submitted with the June
4,2007, letter; this
table includes summaries
of temperature measurements from 2001 through 2006. Table 2 does
not include the 2005 and 2006
data, so it shows summaries of the temperature measurements
from
2001 through 2004. We feel that this table better represents Stickney WRP's effluent
temperature characteristics.
Please feel free to contact me
to discuss this matter.
Very truly yours,
~~ I<.~
Louis Kollias
Director
ofResearch and Development
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Feldman
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Period
TABLE
1: BASIC STATISTICS OF TEMPERATURE (OF) IN THE
OUTFALL OF
STICKNEY
WATER RECLAMATION PLANT (WRP)
DURING 2001 THROUGH 2006
Percentile
Observation Minimum
25
th
50
th
75
th
Mean Maximum
Median
January
186
45.1
50.7
52.5
54.3
52.6
62.4
February*
169
44.8
48.6
52.3
53.6
51.6
61.5
March
186
45.5
50.4
52.5
54.0
52.3
58.5
April 1-15
90
47.5
52.7
55.1
57.0
55.0
63.5
April 16-30
90
53.8
56.8
58.7
60.8
58.8
64.8
May 1-15
90
52.5
59.2
61.5
63.3
61.1
72.3
May 16-31
96
55.8
60.4
64.0
65.9
63.7
76.6
June 1-15
90
58.8
63.5
66.3
72.5
67.6
82.2
June 16-30
90
64.0
67.8
70.1
74.5
70.9
84.0
July
186
67.6
71.6
73.7
79.0
75.2
85.8
August
186
68.0
72.5
74.8
80.6
76.5
85.8
September 1-15
90
69.6
72.9
74.3
80.2
76.3
98.2
September 16-30
90
65.3
70.3
72.7
76.6
73.8
97.9
October 1-15
90
60.3
66.4
69.3
73.2
69.8
85.8
October 16-31
96
58.6
64.0
66.1
69.4
66.8
76.1
November
180
54.7
61.3
62.8
66.2
63.7
76.1
December
186
49.6
54.1
57.4
59.9
57.1
66.6
*Included data for February 29
of 2004.
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TABLE
2: BASIC STATISTICS OF TEMPERATURE (OF) IN THE
OUTFALL OF
STICKNEY
WATER RECLAMATION PLANT (WRP)
DURING 2001 THROUGH 2004
Percentile
Observation Minimum
25
th
50
th
75
th
Mean Maximum
Median
January
124
45.1
50.1
51.6
53.2
51.5
57.2
February*
113
44.8
48.2
50.7
53.2
50.6
59.5
March
124
45.5
49.6
51.9
53.9
51.8
57.7
April 1-15
60
47.5
52.4
54.5
56.4
54.4
60.4
April 16-30
60
54.0
56.2
58.2
60.0
58.1
62.2
May 1-15
60
52.5
56.7
60.7
62.8
60.2
68.4
May 16-31
64
55.8
59.9
61.6
64.6
62.2
75.4
June 1-15
60
58.8
62.6
64.4
66.3
64.6
71.8
June 16-30
60
64.0
66.7
68.5
70.1
68.4
73.8
July
124
67.6
70.8
72.3
73.9
72.3
76.5
August
124
68.0
72.1
73.2
74.8
73.5
77.5
September 1-15
60
69.6
72.4
73.4
74.3
73.5
79.3
September 16-30
60
65.3
68.9
71.5
74.0
71.7
84.6
October 1-15
60
60.3
65.6
67.5
70.8
68.0
75.0
October 16-31
64
59.9
64.0
65.7
68.1
66.0
72.0
November
120
54.7
60.8
62.2
64.2
62.5
70.5
December
124
50.5
54.4
57.6
59.9
57.3
66.6
*Included data for February 29
of 2004.
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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
of
Greater Chicago
100 EAST ERIE STREET
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60611-3154
312'751'5600
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Louis Kollias, P.E., BCEE
Director of Research and Development
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BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Terrence
J.
O'Brien
Presld,nt
Kathleen Therese Meany
. Vice
Prealdent
Gloria AUtto Majewski
ChllJrmsn
of Finance
Frank Avila
Patricia
Horton
Barbara
J.
McGowan
Cynthia M. Santos
D'bra Shore
Patricia Young
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IEPA ATTACHMENT NO.
Jt:L.
June 4,2007
Mr. Rob Sulski
Illinois Enviromnental Protection Agency
9511 West Harrison Street
Des Plaines, Illinois 60016
Dear Mr. Sulski:
Subject: Chicago Area Waterways Use Attainability Analysis Draft Standards
This letter is a follow-up
to our March 23,2007, letter to the Illinois Environmental Pro-
tection Agency regarding the subject matter. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of
Greater Chicago (District) would like
to amend our comments in the attachment to the March 23,
2007,
letter. In Item 14, we state that the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) downstream
of California Avenue, including the Collateral Channel, should be added
to the list of noncontact
recreation waters.
We would like to rescind this comment. We agree with the January 18,2007,
draft water quality standards in which the csse is designated as nonrecreational waters.
As you requested, we enclose the effluent temperatures, with associated statistics, for the
North Side, Calumet
and Stickney Water Reclamation Plants for the years 2001 through 2006
(Tables
1
throughJ).
You also requested that we determine the aqueous carbon dioxide concentration in the
waterway. The District determines alkalinity,
pH and water temperature, among other parame-
ters,
at our ambient water quality monitoring (AWQM) sites. The carbonate alkalinity concentra-
tion
is determined by potentiometric titration to endpoint pH. To determine the aqueous carbon
dioxide concentration, we assume that
all alkalinity consists of HC03-,
col-
and OH-, which
overestimates the carbonate concentration because it ignores other sources
of alkalinity. We
used relations provided in
Water Quality
(Tchobanoglou, G. and Schroeder, E., Addison-Wesley
Publishing,
19 ..
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equations were used:
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3
]+
[CO~-
]+
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(1)
JUN
6 2007
Div. Water Poilution Control
Field Ops-ratlons .
Sectiorl - Reg. 2
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