ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

April

18, 1974

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

AT CARBONDALE,

)

Vs.

)

PCB 74—26

)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

)

Richard

G.

Higgerson appeared on behalf of Petitioner;

Robert

F.

Krug appeared on behalf of Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr. Dumelle):

Southern Illinois University

(SIU) filed

a variance request on

January 21,

1974, for an extension of time until

April

15,

1974,

to

complete modifications

of the waste water treatment system located

at SIU’s Little Grassy Lake Outdoor Laboratory.

The Agency

recommended that the variance be granted for the suspended solids

standard found

in Water Pollution Rule 404(f) which became effective

after December 31, 1973.

SIU’s

Little Grassy Lake Outdoor Laboratory

is

located

in Jackson

County

at Carbondale.

This summer camping facility generates approxi-

mately 7500 gallons per day of sewage plant effluent which

is

in

compliance with

the requirement of 4 mg/l of BOO5, but violates the

suspended solids requirement of 5mg/i

(Water Rule 404(f)).

SIU’s chlorinated sewage plant effluent is discharged

to Indian

Creek which

is tributary to Drury

Creek.

The Agency states that the

environmental

impact upon Indian Creek, during the variance period,

would be minimal

due to the limited use of the facility and small

magnituth~of the violation of the suspended solid requirement.

For

this reason, the Board has decided

to grant the variance.

The above

consists of the Board’s findings of fact and conclusions of law.

ORDER OF THE BOARD

Southern Illinois University

is hereby granted a variance from the

suspended solids standard of Rule 404(f) of the Water Pollution Rules

from December 31,

1973,

until April

15, 1974.

IT

IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan

L.

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board,

certify that

he above Opinion and Order was adopted

on this /~3~’~”

day of

,

1974 by a vote of

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