ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    December
    21,
    1971
    LAKE COUNTY SCHOOL DIST.
    #
    64
    v.
    )
    H
    71-313,
    71-382
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    WAUKEGAN PARK DISTRICT
    v.
    )
    ##
    71—314,
    71—342
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    ~NTRAL CHRISTIAN CHU~CH
    v.
    )
    #
    71-321
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    Opinion and Order of the Board
    (by Mr.
    Currie)
    These petitions request permission to connect new buildings
    to sewers tributary
    to overloaded treatment plants in the North
    Shore Sanitary District despite our order
    in
    70-7, League of
    Women Voters v. NSSD
    (March 31, 1971).
    We believe the school and park district cases are governed
    by our decision in School Building Commission
    v.
    EPA,
    #
    71-247
    (Oct.
    18,
    1971)
    ,
    in which we allowed
    a new school building to
    be connected
    to an
    over1oade~ sewer.
    Our reasoning
    there was
    that the same children would attend school
    in the same area
    whether or not we granted the variance;
    to refuse
    the connection
    would forbid the use of the new and more adequate building
    without keeping down pollution.
    Similarly,
    two of the petitions
    before us today concern
    a school and
    a park field house, both
    to serve principally those living
    in the District.
    We believe
    the sewage load will be substantially unaffected by allowing
    these connections.
    We add that we do not believe this argument
    applies in the case
    of new residential
    or commercial construction,
    for the buildings vacated
    in such cases are available
    for new
    occupants.
    3— 313
    The third case,
    #
    71-321, concerns
    a church.
    We cannot
    on the basis
    of the skimpy petition determine
    in which of the
    above categories this case falls.
    We cannot exclude
    the
    possibility
    that the congregation may
    leave behind an old build-
    ing to be used by someone else, with
    a consequent increase
    in
    sewage to the treatment plant.
    We asked some
    time ago for
    additional information, which has not been submitted.
    The
    90-day period for decision is nearly up.
    The petition must
    therefore be dismissed.
    The Petitions
    in
    H
    71—313
    and 71-314 are hereby granted;
    those
    in
    H
    71—342 and 71—382,
    supplementary statements in the
    school and park cases,
    are dismissed
    as moot; that in
    #
    71—321
    is dismissed as inadequate, without prejudice to
    the filing of
    a revised petition.
    I,
    Christan Moffett, Acting Clerk of
    the Pollution Control Board,
    certify that
    the Board adopted the above Opinion and Order of
    the Board this
    21st
    day of December,
    1971 by
    a vote of
    4-0.
    3—314

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