ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    October
    6,
    1983
    In the matter of:
    JOHN DEERE THERMAL DISCHARGE
    )
    R81-26
    (EAST MOLINE)
    FINAL ORDER.
    ADOPTED RULE
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by D. Anderson):
    On May 5,
    1983 the Board proposed
    35 Ill. Adm. Code
    304.205,
    a site-specific effluent rule for John Deere
    Foundry.
    The proposal appeared at
    7 Ill. Reg.
    6697, May 27,
    1983.
    On July 26,
    1983 the Board sent the proposal to
    second notice with no changes.
    On September
    22, 1983 the
    cioint Committee on Administrative Rules indicated that it
    had no objection.
    The Board will therefore adopt Section
    304.205 as proposed.
    The complete text is as follows:
    Section 304.205
    John Deere Foundry Discharges
    a)
    This Section applies to existing effluent discharges
    from an existing nodular iron foundry owned by
    Deere and Company which discharges to tributaries
    of Sugar Creek in Sections
    29 and 30, T18N, R1E of
    the Fourth Principal Meridian, Rock Island County.
    b)
    If paragraphs
    (c)
    and
    (d)
    are met, such discharges
    shall not be subject to Section 304.105 as it
    applies to the following water quality standards:
    1)
    35 Ill. Mm. Code 302.211(c);
    2)
    35 Ill. Adm.
    Code 302.211(d);
    and,
    3)
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 302.208 with respect to
    total dissolved solids and iron
    (total).
    C)
    No person shall cause or allow temperature in any
    effluent discharge subject to this Section to
    exceed 37 degrees C
    (98 degrees
    F)
    at any time.
    d)
    No person shall cause or allow the concentration
    of total dissolved solids
    (STORET 70300)
    in any
    effluent discharge subject to this Section to
    exceed 2200 mg/l,
    subject to the averaging rule of
    Section 304.104.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    54-183
    —2—
    I, Christan
    L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, h~r~bycertify th t
    he above Order was
    adopted on the
    ~
    day of
    _________-
    1983 by a vote of
    4c
    Christan L. MoffeL~/C1erk
    Illinois Pollution~6ntrolBoard
    54-184

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