ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

January 10,

1985

CiTY

OF ABINGDON,

)

)

Petitioner,

)

)

PCB 84—184

)

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

)

PROTECTION AGENCY,

)

Respondent.

ORDER

OF THE BOARD

(by J.

Anderson):

This petition,

filed December 31,

1984 is

deficient

in

certain respects:

1.

Variance

is requested

from the gross alpha particle activity

level of Section

604.301.

Paragraph 17 asserts that the

City~swater does not violate the standard according

to

Agency samplings.

Paragraph 6 provides certain test data

which does not appear to contradict the assertion

in

paragraph 17.

The City should therefore explain what

data

leads

it to

believe

that

a violation exists making variance

relief necessary,

or

withdraw its

request for variance

if it

is

not

needed.

2.

A

five-year

variance

is

also

requested

from

the

fluoride

limitation

of

Sections

604.202

and

604,203.

Information

presented

in

support

of

this

request

is

insufficient in

that:

a.

The engineering report

submitted

as

Appendix

A does not

appear to discuss the “possibility and feasibility

of

achieving

coi~pliance

by blending

water frc~

its

deep

wells with water

from another

source~

as

;required

by

the

variance

granted

in

~CB

81-107.

More specifically,

the report

does

not

discuss

whether

it

is possible

or

feasible to

drill

a new shallow well

whose water could

be

blended

with

the

City~s existing

deep wells,

b.

The report discusses various treatment alternatives for

the

City~sexisting deep well water

supply,

as

well

as

replacement of that water with raw or finished water

from the City of Galesburg.

The report does not provide

indications of the

amount

of time it would take

the

City to implement

any

of these alternatives,

Variance

relief is limited to five years under

the

Environmental

62-313

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Protection Act,

and compliance is expected

to

be

achieved

at that time unless

a site-specific rule has

been proposed

to

and

adopted

by

the

Board,

The City

must

advise

the

Board

how

long

it

would

take to bring

its system

into

compliance

by

blending

or

any

of the

other

options

it

has

discussed,

to

allow

the

Board to

determine whether

a variance should be granted

for

five

years,

or

some

lesser

period.

Unless

an amended petition

curing

these

deficiencies

is

;~iied

within

45 days of the date

of

this

Order,

this petition

will

be subject to dismissa,

IT

IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Dorothy M. Gunn,

Clerk

of

the

Illinois Pollution

Control

Board,

hereby

certify

that

the

above

Order

was

adopted

on

the/~C~_day of

___________,

1985

by

a

vote

of

_____

____

///

Dorothy

M.1~unn,

Clerk

Illinois

Pollution

Control

Board