ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    ~Apri1 17,
    1972
    NORMAN NACHTRIEB
    P2—8
    v.
    SOUTH PALOS TOWNSHIP
    SANITARY DISTRICT
    SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT BY JACOB
    D. DUMELLE~
    While
    I have registered
    my
    vote in favor of this opinion,
    I do find several disturbing points about this proceeding.
    First,
    the South Palos Township Sanitary District accepted
    a bid of $1,140,411
    (which was $438,000 over the original
    estimate)
    of April
    13, 1971 knowimig then that their financing was inadequate.
    That was
    done on or after April
    13,
    1971 and
    this Board had then
    been in existence almost
    a year.
    It would seem to me
    that the Dis-
    trict should have come to this Board,
    then,
    prior to the contractual
    coxnmitment,and not afterwards.
    One
    does not start to build
    a factory
    and
    then seek rezoning.
    Second,
    no witness for the Environmental Protection Agency
    testified that pollution occurred from the existing septic tanks.
    We
    have only the testimony of Mr. Nachtrieb on
    this point and we do not
    know on the record his qualifications as
    a judge of pollution.
    While
    we should encourage the replacement of septic tanks by sewer systems,
    what we here were asked to do and did do was
    to make
    a finding of
    water pollution and without benefit of Agency
    testimony.
    The power to issue bonds without referendum and
    in excess of
    a debt limit is
    a great power.
    It is also a great responsibility
    because
    it may burden future generations well
    into the twenty-first
    century.
    And by adding to overlapping debt,
    the new bond issue may
    make other area bond issues,
    such as for new schools
    or for water
    systems, both unvotable and unsalable.
    In
    the
    future,
    I would like
    to see governmental units coming
    before us for bond
    issues without referenda do so before
    the fact of
    commitment and not
    after.
    And
    I should like to see greater technical
    testimony
    (and Agency participation)
    to prove ,the point of water
    pollution.
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    JACOB D. DUMELLE
    /
    I,
    Christan Moffett,
    Clerk of
    the Pp1~utionControl Board,
    certify
    that
    the above Supplemental Statement was adopted on the
    17th Day
    of April,
    1972.
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