ILLINOIS

POLLUTION CONTROL

BOARD

June 28, 1971

MRS. E. ALLEN HAIGHT

V.

#71~93

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Opinion

and

Order of the Board (by Mr. Currie):

This petition requests a variance fromtthe toard’s order of

March 31, 1971 in the case of League of Women Voters v, North Shore

Sanitary District, #7O~7, which forbade new sewer connections

or increased sewer discharges in portions of Lake County until

adequate treatment facilities are constructed to deal with the added

wastes. We grant the petition for reasons given by the Agency

in its recommendation.

The petitioner was refused a building permit to add two bedrooms,

two bathrooms, and a family room to the ground floor of an existing

residence in Highland Pafk, The need ~for the addition is the illness

of the petitioner~s children, which will make stair climbing

impossible. As the Agency says, “the Haight residence is already

connected to the NSSD system and thus would not constitute a

new source of waste. Nor is this a case of allowing an existing

source to increase the quantity or concentration of its waste.

As the petition subcinctly points out, ~the planned addition to

our home places no additional burden to the Sanitary District. We will

~still number five bddies living at 267 Sumac Road.

. .

The present case

~shouldbe~di StTh~ifs lie d BrBm th±iance petitions dontemplating a change

in th us of an Oxisting connection, where the change would increase

the number of people using the facilit~esor result rn a different type

of sewage being added to the system.” How we woufld re5olve such a case we

do not today decide.

As the Agency points out, this reuuest i.s not in conflict

with the objectives of the. Board~s order, Moreover, the hardship

if the variance were denieiwould be great indeed, The variance~is

granted. We regret that it has taken us so long to decide the case.

I, Regina E. Ryan, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board, certify

that the Board adopted the above opi.n~,nn an~ order this

28

day of June, 1971