ILLINOIS

POLLUTION

CONTROL BOARD

March

1,

1979

TIMBER RIDGE MOBILE HOME PARK,

)

Petitioner,

V.

)

PCB 78—310

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr. Young):

This

matter

comes before the Board on a Petition filed

on December 29,

1978,

by the Timber Ridge Mobile Home Park

for a variance from Rule 962(a) of Chapter

3:

Water Pollution,

of the Board’s Rules and Regulations to allow the connection

of certain properties to a sanitary sewer extension in lieu

of a like number of connections presently permitted.

The

Environmental Protection Agency filed a Recommendation on

February

2,

1979, which recommended a grant of the variance,

subject to certain conditions.

No hearing was held; Petitioner

waived hearing and made no request pursuant to Rule

406 of the

Procedural

Rules after receipt of the Agency recommendation.

Timber Ridge Mobile Home Park is located on Ridgeland

Avenue, Matteson, Cook County,

Illinois and Petitioner

is

engaged in the development and leasing of residential mobile

home sites.

The Timber Ridge Mobile Home Park Phase

1 consists

of 211 mobile home lots served by a sanitary sewer extension

constructed under Agency permit #l976-HB-490-COP issued

on

April

9,

1976.

One hundred forty-five

(145)

of the 211 lots

permitted in Phase

1 are connected,

On November 15,

1978,

Petitioner was issued a construct only permit for a sanitary

sewer extension to serve a Phase

2 development of

the facilities

by the addition of 344 additional lots.

No operating permit

was granted because the treatment plant to which the sewers

are tributary was hyc~rau1icallyoverloaded and has been on

restricted status since February

9,

1978.

The treatment plant,

owned and operated by Prestwick Utilities,

is currently

being expanded from the present

0.15

mgd capacity to 0.4 mgd.

Plant expansion is scheduled for completion

in the

spring of

1979

(Pet.

1—3,

Rec.

2).

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The variance requested would allow the Petitioner to

connect 50

lots

in Phase

2

in lieu of the connection of

50

lots in Phase

1.

The Petitioner agrees to defer the connection

of

50 lots

in Phase

1 under permit until the expansion of

the treatment plant is complete

(Pet.

3-5).

Since the substitution proposed will involve no additional

flow over that currently permitted, the Board

will

grant

Petitioner’s reque~t.

This Opinion constitutes the Board’s findings

of

fact

and conclusions of law in this matter.

ORDER

1.

Timber Ridge Mobile Home Park

is granted

a variance

from Rule 962(a) of Chapter

3:

Water Pollution,

of the

Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations

to

allow the

connection of 50 lots

(125 P.E.)

in its Phase

2 to the

sanitary sewer permitted under permit #1978-HC-2659.

2.

Fifty

(50) of the lots permitted under permit #1976-

HB-490-COP

in Phase

1 shall not be connected until the

expansion of the main sewage treatment plant of Prestwick

Utilities

is completed and the Illinois Environmental Protection

Agency has approved such connections in writing.

3.

Within forty-five

(45) days of the

date

of this Order,

the Petitioner shall submit to the Manager, Variance Section,

Division of Water Pollution Control, Illinois Environmental

Protection Agency, 2200 Churchill Road, Springfield,

Illinois,

62706, an executed Certification of Acceptance and Agreement

to he bound to all terms and conditions of the variance.

The

forty-five day period herein shall be stayed during judicial

review of this variance pursuant to Section

41 of the Environ-

mental Protection

~ct.

The form of said certification shall

be as follows:

CERTIFICATION

I,

(We),

___________________________

having read

the

Order of the Pollution Control Board in PCB 78-310,

understand and accept said order, realizing that such

acceptance

renders

all terms and conditions thereto

binding and enforceable.

SIGNED

TITLE

DATE

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IT IS SO ORDERED

I, Christan L.

Foffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify the above Opini n and Order

were adopted on the

1

‘~‘

day of

1)’)

,

1979,

byavoteof

Ij’.~o

Illinois Polluti

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