V
    iLr
    tNO1~S POLLUTION
    CONTROL
    BOARD
    April
    3,
    1980
    )
    POE 78—295
    CONCURRING OPINION
    (by
    Mr.
    Dumelle):
    ~y
    reason for concurring
    in this matter is the excessive
    level
    of the penalty.
    East
    St.
    Louis
    several years ago was
    characterized as
    “living on judgment funding bonds.”
    This
    record does not address the present financial
    status but
    it could not have improved in such a short time.
    The Agency first wrote to the City on July 22, 1975
    about violations
    at the landfill,
    Had it brought its
    enforcement action sooner than December
    4,
    1978
    it would have
    shortened the period of violations and thus reduced the
    penalty.
    One cannot draw blood
    from a turnip nor money from a
    desperately poor city.
    The penalty of $1,000 is excessive.
    1980
    V
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION
    AGENCY,
    Petitioner,
    EAST ST.
    LOUIS,
    Respondent.
    I,
    Christan
    L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control
    Board, hereby certif~that the above Concurring
    Opinion was
    riled on the
    ~
    day of
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