ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    April
    28, 1977
    CRAWFORD COUNTY STATE BANK,
    Land Trust
    #185,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 77-32
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Young):
    This matter is before the Board on the petition filed
    on January
    31,
    1977,
    by the Crawford County State Bank, Land
    Trust #185,
    seeking variance from Rule
    962(a) of Chapter
    3:
    Water Pollution, for a sanitary sewer extension
    to serve
    a
    twenty-four unit apartment complex.
    The Agency is presently
    unable to issue an operating permit for this extension because
    it is
    tributary
    to the Mt. Vernon sewage lift station #1, which
    experiences overflows during periods of wet weather.
    The Agency
    Recommendation favorable to the grant of the variance was
    filed
    on April
    11, 1977.
    Although Petitioner commenced construction of the apartment
    complex without first obtaining the requisite Agency permits,
    Petitioner alleges that this occurred only because the Mt. Vernon
    city engineer had given assurances
    that the downstream sewers
    and treatment facilities were adequate.
    Petitioner alleges
    that
    a severe hardship will be suffered unless it is permitted to rent
    these apartments as soon as they are completed,
    or some time
    in April,
    1977.
    The Petitioner also alleges that the City of
    Mt. Vernon
    is
    in desperate need of
    rental. housinq.
    The City of Mt. Vernon
    is presently
    in the process of up-
    grading lift station
    #1 and it is estimated that the project will
    be completed in early July,
    1977.
    The station has sufficient
    dry weather capacity to receive the anticipated flow from Peti-
    tioner’s facility,
    and this flow will receive adequate treatment
    at the Mt. Vernon sewage treatment plant.
    The lift station
    presently has
    a design average flow of 230,400 gals/day with
    a
    peak capacity of 576,000 gals/day.
    According to Petitioner, the
    maximum flow to the station prior to any upgrading was 787,352
    gals/day.
    By January of 1977, the lift station upgrading had
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    already brought about an estimated 20
    reduction in flow
    (157,470 gals/day)
    to the
    station.
    These figures indicate
    that if no further upgrading occurred until the new lift
    station is fully operable,
    that there wOuld be a 53,882
    gals/day excess flow to the
    existing station during periods
    of wet weather.
    The capacity of
    the proposed lift station
    is
    1,120,320 gals/day.
    The Board is disposed to grant the relief requested.
    The Board finds that the hardship that would be suffered
    by Petitioner and the Mt. Vernon community
    far outweighs the
    detrimental environmental impact that result from a variance
    grant.
    The Board has given considerable weight to the fact
    that the existing overflow problem will be completely eliminated
    in less than 90 days.
    This Opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of fact and
    conclusions of law in this matter.
    ORDER
    Petitioner, Crawford County State Bank,
    Land Trust #185,
    is granted variance from Rule 962(a) of Chapter
    3:
    Water
    Pollution,
    for a sanitary sewer extension to serve a twenty—
    four unit apartment complex that will be tributary
    to the Mt.
    Vernon lift station
    #1.
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Christan
    L. Moffett,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board,
    hereby certify the above Opinion and Order were
    adopted on the
    ~4
    day of
    _________________,
    1977 by a
    vote of
    5—O
    •
    I
    Christan L. Moffett~’1erk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    25-406

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