ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    May
    20,
    1976
    VILLAGE OF ADDISON,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 76—87
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Goodman):
    On April
    1,
    1976,
    the Village of Addison
    (Addison)
    filed a
    Petition for variance with the Pollution Control Board
    (Board)
    to
    permit a sewer extension to serve the community swimming pool.
    On
    May
    14,
    1976,
    the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency)
    filed its Recommendation in this matter.
    Addison seeks variance from Rule 962 of Chapter
    3 of the Water
    Pollution Regulations of the Illinois Pollution Control Board
    (Regulations)
    in order to connect a proposed Village of Addison
    community swimming pooi to the Addison South Wastewater Treatment
    Plant
    (STP).
    The Addision South Plant has been placed on restrictive
    status by the Agency.
    Addison estimates that the average flow of
    wastewater to the sewer would be 4,000 gallons per day with a peak
    flow of 8,000
    gallons per day resulting in an average of 12 pounds
    of SOD and 20 pounds of suspended solids per day discharged to the
    STP.
    An additional 1,800 gallons of water will be discharged at most
    once per week during
    a filter backwash cycle.
    Addison alleges that,
    due to the filtering process used, the backwashing does not create an
    organic demand.
    The pool, bathhouse
    and gymnasium are a part of a $788,000.00
    installation of which $201,000.00
    is for the pool.
    Addison proposes
    to have the pool open to the public from June,
    1976 through August,
    1976.
    The pool is to be used by residents of the Village of Addison;
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    therefore,
    ho new loading would be contributed to the STP.
    Addison
    has received a Federal Grant for Step
    2 construction of a 2.0 million
    gallons per day expansion at the STP with completion expected August,
    1978.
    The hardship claimed by Addison for its residents is the loss
    of the long anticipated community pool this summer and financial hard-
    ship to the Park District due to meeting financial obligations without
    the income from the pool facilities.
    Addison alleges, and the Agency
    agrees, that the additional wastewater load to the STP would not
    effect its operational efficiency since the users of the pool are
    already residents of the Village.
    The backwash water increases the
    flow to the plant by approximately 0.09
    over and above the current
    daily average
    flow.
    The Agency in its Recommendation indicates that the STP plays
    a part in the degradation of Salt Creek,
    the waterway to which it
    discharges its effluent.
    However, the Agency contends that
    it
    is un-
    aware of any basement back—ups along the sewer system delivering the
    effluent to the STP and indicates an additional flow of 4,000 gallons
    per day
    is too small to have any appreciable effect on sewer over-
    flows.
    In addition, the Agency points out the general lack of wet
    weather problems during the months that the pool will be in use.
    The Agency notes
    that,
    in the past, the Board has granted
    variance for institutional uses where the proposed use of the facili-
    ties would be in substitution of the use of facilities in the homes
    of members on the basis that the proposed use would not generate addi-
    tional sewage to the overloaded plant
    (New Hope Missionary Baptist
    Church
    v.
    EPA, PCB 72-417;
    Tennis Development, Inc.
    v.
    EPA, PCB 72-59;
    Waukegan Park District v. EPA, PCB 71-314).
    In addition,
    the Board
    has previously granted variance where the overall interests of the
    community were better served by such grant.
    (Brethren Home of Girard
    V.
    EPA,
    PCB
    75—193).
    Considering the hardship to Addison if this variance is not
    granted and the fact that the effect,
    if any, on the sanitary treat-
    ment system and the waterway is de minimis, the Board will grant
    Addison the variance requested.
    This Opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions
    of law of the Board in this matter.
    ORDER
    It is the Order of the Pollution Control Board that the
    Village of Addison be granted variance from Rule 962 of Chapter
    3
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    of the Water Pollution Regulations of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board for the purpose of construction and connection of the community
    swimming pool to the Addison South Wastewater Treatment Plant.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan L. Moffett,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    ~ereby certify the above Opinion and Order were adopted on
    the
    ~
    day of
    ,
    1976 by a vote of
    ~
    Illinois Pollution
    Board
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