ILLINOIS

POLLUTION CONTROL

BOARD

September 13,

1982

CITY OF

SPRINGFIELD,

)

Petitioner,

PCB

82-413

ILLINOIS

ENVIRONNENTAL~PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent

)

ORDER OF

THE BOARD

(by

I.

Goodman):

On August 31,

1982 the City of Springfield

(City)

filed for

a provisional variance,

and

on September

15,

1982 the Illinois

Environmental Protection

Aaency

~tAgency)

filed

its Recommendation.

The Agency recommends that variance

be

granted from the suspended

solids limitation of

Section

304,124 for

a period of five days,

the time necessary

to construct a

bypass.

Over the past two

years when cleaning its

surge lagoon,

the City has diverted flows

from a

grit

settling

basin

directly

to Lake Springfield.

It now

proposes

to

construct

a

bypass

around

the

grit

tank

and

surge

lagoon,

to

avoid

future

direct

discharges.

The

Agency

has

concluded

that

enviror~rnenta.

harm during

the

construction

period

to Lake

Springfield will be minimai~and that the

lake~spublic

water supply is not adversely affected.

Furthermore, the Agency

has concluded

that. denial would

impose an arbitrary or unreasonable

hardship

to

the

City.

Although

the

Board notes that the circumstances involved in

constructing

the bypass are

riot

an

emergency or unexpected nature,

it will

grant

this

provis:Lonai

variance

pursuant to Section 35(b)

of

the

Environmental

Protection

Act.

ORDER

The

City

of Springfield

is

granted

a

provisional

variance

from

the

suspended

solids

limitation

contained

in

35

Illinois

Administrative Act

304.124,

for a period of five days during the

construction

of its bypass,

subject to the following conditions:

1,

The City shall

notify

the Illinois Environmental

Protection

Agency

two

days

prior

to

diverting

flows

to

Lake

Springfield,

and notify the

Agency when the diversion has

ceased,

48-193

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2.

The

period

of variance is to commence on the date

the City begins to divert its flows to Lake Springfield.

3.

The City’s discharge shall not exceed the total

period of the variance.

4.

The City shall sample and analyze the diverted

flow for the parameters as required

in the NPDES permit and

report the results to the Agency within fourteen days after

the expiration of the variance.

5.

The City shall make reasonable efforts to reduce

wastewater flows during the period of this variance.

6.

Within

ten

days of the date of this Order,

Petitioner shall execute and forward to the Environmental

Protection Agency,

2200 Churchill Road, Springfield, Illinois

62706, a Certificate of Acceptance and Agreement to be bound

to all terms and conditions of this variance.

The form of

CERTIFICATE

I,

(We), ________________________________,

having read

the Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board in PCB 82—113,

dated _________________________________, understand and accept the

said Order, realizing that such acceptance renders all terms and

By:

Title

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Board

Chairman

Dumelle and Board Member Joan Anderson concurred.

I,

Christan

L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify that the above Order was ado~ted

on the

/

~‘~‘

day of

_________________,

1982 by a vote of

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Illinois Pollution Control Board