Illinois Pollution Control Board

June

3,

1971

tNV1k(L)NM~NTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY)

V.

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PCB #71—28

DANVILLE SANITARY DISTRICT

Dissenting Opinion by Samuel R, Aldrich, Member of the Board

I concur with the majority opinion and order with the exception

of point Number 2 in the order which bans sewer connections until

the discharge is reduced to 20 mg/l BOD and 25 mg/I suspended solids,

I do not disagree with banning~additional sewer connections in all

cases. Rather, I feel that the Board should consider the specific

circumstances of present use and quality of the receiving water, the

quantity

and

nature of the discharge above standards, and, if pos-

sible to ascertain, the likely effect of a ban on

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the

completion date of needed improvements.

When the pollution involves a hazardous material, may have an ir-

reversible effect, inte~feres with extensive

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use such

as the beach areas of Lake Michigan, a sewer ban is justified.

In the Danville case, the inconvenience to citizens who cannot con-

nect sewers from new homes is, in my judgement, greater than the

undesirable impact on the Vermilion River and on those who desire

to use it for

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purposes. The Danville Sanitary District

is proceeding in good faith and expeditiously to correct the viola-

tions of the applicable regulations. It may well be that improve-

ments have already been made

so

that no sewer connections need in

fact to be banned. If so, the order is moot and this dissent is only

a matter of expressing a view on a principle.

I

con

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I dissent

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Regina B. Ryan, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board certify

that Dr. Samuel R. Aldrich submitted the above opinion on

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day of

June, 1971

rk, Illinois

lution Control Board

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