ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November 7, 1985

Petitioner

PCB

85—189

ILLINOIS

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTIOW AGENCY~

Respoa~tent

CONCURRING OPINION

by

J~,D, Dumeile):

The Agency

has aced inexact language in

its Recommendation.

In paragraph 7

it s~tes liThe Aqency bases this

determination

upon the fact

that ~be

solids

discharged

are solids

taken in from

the Illinois

River

and no deqradat ion should occur”.

Yet in paragraph 2 the

Agency

mentions lifilter backwash,

softener regenerant

wastewater and boiler blowdown”. This

directly contradicts paragraph 7~

The Mobil Oil Corporation application dated October

17, 1985

is more precise.

It

points out (p.

3) that the sand filter

backwash has or will shortly be eliminated from the outfall in

question. Boiler blowdown

and softener

regenerate waste water

will continue to be

discharged

from

this outfall.

However, the

amounts of total

suspended

solids

are quite

low, about one pound

per day,

Provisional

variances come to the Board

generally on the day

of its

meeting.

Little

time is

available to

study the material

submitted. The

Agency~s Recommendation

should be carefully drawn

to reflect

the actual situation.

I,

Dorothy M~. Gunny Cler o the

Illinois Pollution Control

Board,

hereby certify thai:

th hove Concurring Opinion was filed

on the

,~

day

of

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1985.

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Illinois Pollution

Control Board

ob D,

Dumelle,

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