ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

May 19, 1988

IN THE MATTER OF:

AMENDMENTS

 TO WATER QUALITY AND

EFFLUENT STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO

)

 R87—27

THE CHICAGO RIVER SYSTEM AND

CALUMET RIVER SYSTEM

ADOPTED RULE

 FINAL ORDER

ORDER OF THE BOARD

 (by R.C.

 Fletnal):

On March

 24, 1988 the Board adopted

 for second notice

certain amendments to water quality and effluent standards

applicable

 to the Chicago and Calumet River Systems,

 as proposed

jointly by The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago

and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

On May 10,

1988

 the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules

(“JCAR”) issued a certification of

 no objection

 to the proposed

amendments.

 However, JCAR does recommend insertion of

 reference

to Section 304.122 within the first sentence of Section

304.301(b)

 for the purpose of consistency of this section as well

as

 to provide

 a parallel with the language

 of Section

304.301(a).

 This change does not alter

 the substance of the

amendments,

 but does increase their clarity;

 the Board

accordingly accepts this change.

Today the Board

 adopts the amendments

 as proposed at second

notice, with exception of the JCAR recommendation noted above.

The full amendments are listed below.

 The Board also hereby

adopts the Second Notice Opinion

 as the Final Opinion of the

Board

 in this matter.

PART 302

WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

SUBPART D:

 SECONDARY CONTACT AND

INDIGENOUS AQUATIC LIFE STANDARDS

Section 302.405

 Dissolved Oxygen

Dissolved oxygen (STORET number 00300)

 shall

 not be less than

~s~-9

e~~ee~

 ~6 I’~et~s4t~~y

 24-4~et~rpe~i~e~

~Sf

2-~G

mg/i

~?~ef

~eeel~ef

~-r

 sl~flne~

~er~

 4.0 mg/l

 at any timei

 except that the Calumet—Sag

Channel

 shall not be less

 than 3.0 mg/l at any time.

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Section 302.407

 Chemical Constituents

Concentrations of other chemical constituents shall not exceed

the following

 standards:

CONSTITUENT

STORET

NUMBER

CONCENTRATION

(inq/l)

AI~i!!~OI~ N4~re~e~ ~e

N+

~3: 9e~e~er+

+NeveYrt~ef M~eh+

Ammonia, Un-ionized

 (as N)*

Arsenic

 (total)

Barium (total)

Cadmium

 (total)

Chromium (total

hexavalent)

Chromium (total

trivalent)

Copper

 (total)

Cyanide

 (total)

Fluoride

 (total)

Iron

 (total)

Iron

 (dissolved)

Lead

 (total)

Manganese

 (total)

Mercury

 (total)

Nickel

 (total)

Oil,

 fats and

grease

Phenols

Selenium (total)

Silver

Zinc (total)

Total Dissolved

Solids

01033

1.0

00550,

00556

or 00560

32730

00147

01077

01092

1.0

70300

1500

*For ~urposes

 of this section

 the concentration of un—ionized

ammonia shall

 be computed according

 to the following equation:

N

10.94412(1

1O~)

 0.05591

where:

U= Concentration of un—ionized

 ammonia

 as N

 in mg/i

896~O

00619

01002

01007

01027

01032

4~-9

0.1

1.0

5.0

0.15

0.3

1.0

0.10

15.0

2.0

0.5

0.1

1.0

0.0005

1.0

15.0**

0.3

1.0

1.1

X=

 0.09018

2729.92

(T

 273.16)

-pH

N= Concentration of

 ammonia nitrogen as N

 in mg/I

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—3—

T=

 Temperature

 in degrees Celsius

**Oij.

 shall be analytically separated

 into polar

 and non—polar

components

 if the total concentration exceeds

 15 mg/i.

 In no

case shall either of the components exceed 15 mg/i

 (i.e.,

 15 mg/I

polar materials and

 15 mg/i non—polar materials).

PART

303

WATER USE DESIGNATIONS AND SITE SPECIFIC

WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

SUBPART C:

 SPECIFIC USE DESIGNATIONS AND

SITE SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

Section 303.441

 Secondary Contact Waters

The following are designated

 as secondary contact and indigenous

aquatic life waters and must meet the water quality standards

of

G~pe~B~~

302

 35 Ill.

 Adm. Code 302.Subpart D:

a)

 The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal;

b)

 The Caiuinet—Sag Channel;

c)

 The Little Calumet River from its junction with the

Grand Calumet River

 to the Calumet—Sag Channel;

d)

 The Grand Calumet River;

e)

 The Caiumet River, except the 6.8 mile segment extending

from

the

O’Brien

Locks

and

Dam

Lake

Michigan

f)

 Lake Calumet;

g)

 The South Branch of the Chicago River;

h)

 The North Branch of the Chicago River from

its

confluence with the North Shore Channel

to

its

confluence with the South Branch;

i)

 The Des Plaines

 River from its confluence with the

Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

 to the Interstate

55

bridge; and

 The North Shore Channel, exeep~ ~

 excluding the

segment extending

 from the North Side Sewage Treatment

Works

 to Lake Michigan.

 The dissolved oxygen in said

Channel shall

 be not less than

 5 mg/i during

 16 hours of

any

 24 hour period,

 nor less than

 4 mg/i at any time.

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PART 304

EFFLUENT STANDARDS

SUBPART B:

 SITE SPECIFIC RULES AND

EXCEPTIONS NOT OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY

Section 304.201

 0~t~e~Pfee~e~ P3~an~?yart4de B4sehafges

Wastewater Treatment Plant Discharges

 of The

Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater

 Chicago

a)

 Calumet Treatment Plant Discharges:

The ~erter~3 effluent standards

 of Section 304.124 as

~pplied

 to cXanide discharges, Sections

 304.120

(b)

and

(c) and Section 304.122 does do not apply to eyoMde

~fOM

~e

~

 Pfee~i~e~

 P!’~&~-BOD5,

 total

suspended solids, cyanide,

 and ammonia—nitrogen

discharged

 from the Caiumet Sewage Treatment Works of

The Metropolitan Sanitary District

 of Greater Chicago.

Instead,

 it must meet the following effluent standard,

subject

 to the averaging rule

 of Section 304.104(a),

effective July

 1, 1988:

STORET

 CONCENTRATION

CONSTITUENT

 NUMBER

 (mg/l)

CBOD~

80082

24

SS

00530

28

Ammonia—Nitrogen

 (as N)

00610

Cyanide

00720

 0.15

b)

 North Side Sewage Treatment Works:

The effluent standards

 of Sections 304.120(b)

and

(c)

and

304.122

 not apply

 to BOD5,

 total

 suspended

solids,

 and ammonia—nitrogen discharged from the North

Side Sewage Treatment Works

 of The Metropolitan Sanitary

District of Greater Chicago.

 Instead,

 it must meet

the

following standard,

 subject

 to the averaging

 rule of

Section 304.104(a)

 effective July

1,

 1988:

STORET

 CONCENTRATION

CONSTITUENT

 NUMBER

 (mg/i

)

CBOD~

80082

12

SS

00530

Ammonia—Nitrogen

(as

N)

(April—October)

00610

2.5

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November—March)

00610

4.0

c)

 Chicago Waterway Evaluation

The Metropolitan Sanitary District

 of Greater Chicago

shall complete and submit to the Board

 a comprehensive

water quality evaluation of

 the Chicago Waterway System

and

 its influence on the lower Des Plaines and Upper

Illinois Rivers by January 15,

 1992.

 Such evaluation

shall include assessment of performance levels for North

Side, Calumet and Stickney wastewater reclamation plants

and the extent of sewer overflow reduction through The

Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago’s

Tunnel and Reservoir Plan.

IT

 IS SO ORDERED.

J.

 Durnelle and J. Anderson concurred.

I,

 Dorothy M.

 Gunn, Clerk

 of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby certify that the above Opinion and Order was

adopted

 on the

/9’~-

day of

_____________________,

 1988,

 by a

vote of

7—0

~

Dorothy M.

 Gunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board

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