CITY OF

FARMINC~3~

ILL I~’I

~LLU~1O~

CONTROL

HOARD

~~85

tLLI~OIS ENVIROM~~

~

PROTECTION

AGENC’~,

PCB 84~l66

CONCURRING

OPINION

(by

J~

I).

rnei~eand

J. Theodore

Meyer):

The majority

has eho~

~.

honor the City

of

Farmington’S

request

for

a

~etroactive variance

for the period

from July

1,

1984,

to November

1

i984~

This tiny

community in

Fultori County

with

a pofuTht3c’r oi 3~.1l8

is

to be left

liable

for

prosecution

by anyone for

th

~r~rtence of two sewer system

bypasses.

This Board

in a prin: a:~ “sn authorized

the two

bypasses

to

be installed,

Dry

weather occ~rred

ai d evidently

no overflows

have resulted.

What then ~nv :~eenvironmental

harm?

It is nil,

of course,

and the

variance aheull hvve been

granted back

to July

1,

1984.

Farmingto&s “sin,~

it a~~pears~

was that

it did

not file

early enough

for the

va~an~

nor

did it give

a reason for

its

de1~y. But

tiny comr.unit~esn~cnas Farmington

have few fulltime

personnel to attend

t

s~e

~ompI~.x

Ito

them) matters.

Since no

environmental hara

~ia~

~nre

an~ si~e

F~irmingtonwas

in

fact

following

the Board~ ~r~r

r~iitL~ns,tim variance

for the

period

back to Juiy

IL

shou~dhv~ been

granted.

J~r~r~

~eodore

Meyer

Boa~dMember

I, Dorothy

M,

Gunny im ~ri~

ri

the Illinois Pollution

Control

Board,

hereby

certrfy Lh~ttim ~

Concurring Opinion

was

submitted on the

~?YtT

~

______~

1985.

~

/L~J

~thy~t~

~unn,

Clerk

)i ~roi~ Po:rution Control