ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

September

11, 1986

CITY OF OTTAWA,

)

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 86—80

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

)

PROTECTION AGENCY,

)

)

Respondent.

MR.

JOHN BAYER APPEARED ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER.

MR. THOMAS DAVIS APPEARED ON BEHALF OF RESPONDENT.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by J.

Theodore Meyer):

This matter comes before the Board upon a June 16, 1986

petition for variance from restricted

status filed

by the City of

Ottawa.

The City

is requesting variance

for

a period of five

years from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 602.105(a), Standards for Issuance,

and from 35

Iii.

Adm. Code 602.106(b),

Restricted Status,

but

only to the extent

that those rules involve 35

Iii. Adm. Code

604.301(a)

(combined radium—226

and radium—228).

The Illinois

Environmental Protection Agency (Agency)

filed

its recommendation

that variance be granted, subject to conditions,

on July

9,

1986.

Hearing was held on July 21,

1986 at which members of the

public were present.

Testimony was presented

at hearing which indicated

that

testing of

the City’s water

for combined radium has been

conducted for approximately twenty years and the results of these

tests have already exceeded

5 pCi/i.

(R.

p.

30).

Also,

it was

indicated in

the testimony that individual wells are tested

and

that some test results indicate double the combined radium level

in one well versus another.

(R.

p.

32).

None of this data,

however, was submitted

for the Board

to consider

in reaching

a

decision on the City’s variance petition.

Lastly,

it appears

from the testimony that the 6.2 pCi/l combined radium level

indicated

in

the City’s petition

is

in fact the average combined

radium level throughout

the distribution system.

(R.

p.

21).

Thus,

it appears from this testimony that some residents are

experiencing combined radium levels in their water

in excess of

6.2 pCi/i.

Based on

the above—referenced testimony,

the Board hereby

denies the City’s variance petition with leave

to refile a new

petition which includes the above—cited

data.

Specifically, the

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City should submit with its new petition all data on the level

of

combined radium in the distribution system and all data on the

level of combined radium

in individual

wells for

as many years as

is available.

IT

IS SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board,

hereby certify that the abc~eOpinion and Order was

adopted on the

ir~—

day of

_________________,

1986 by

a vote

of

~

.

I

Dorothy

M. ~unn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board