ILLItWIS POLLUTIOr~ICONTROL BOARD

January

27,

1983

GREATER

PEORIA

SANITARY

DISTRICT,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 83—12

ILLtNOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY,

Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by J.D.

Dumelle):

This provisional variance request comes before the Board

upon a January 27,

1983 Recommendation of the Illinois EnvironmenL~.

Protection Agency (Agency).

The Agency recommends that

a 45-day

provisional variance be granted to the Greater Peoria Sanitary

District

(District) to allow it to drain water in a flooded

150—acre sludge storage

lagoon system.

The District had been

granted a similar provisional variance on December 16,

1982

but did not accept it since it was limited to the draining of

a 50—acre area.

The Agency has concluded that compliance on a short-term

basis with the 5—day biochemical oxygen demand and suspended

solids limitations of Section 304.120 and the ammonia nitrogen

limitation of Section 304.301 would impose an arbitrary or un-

reasonable hardship.

It,

therefore, recommends

that a variance

be granted which is applicable to the entire 150—acre site.

The Board notes that a similar provisional variance was

granted to the District on April

15, 1982

(PCB 82—43,

46 PCB 117)

which required the District

to “proceed with plans to increase

the elevation of the existing levees,” as recommended by the

Agency.

This has apparently been accomplished.

Also,

no

dab~

for the commencement of this provisional variance is given,

so the Board will order

it

to commence upon discharge.

Pursuant

to

Section

35(b)

of

the

Act,

th•~

Board

hereby

grants

the

provisional

variance

as

recommended.

ORDER

The

Peroia

Sanitary

District

is

hereby

granted

a

provisional

variance from the Section 304.120 limitations

for BOD and sus-

pended solids and from the Section 304.301 ammonia nitrogen

limitation for a period of

45 days beginning

on the day that

discharge begins subject

to the

following conditions:

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1.

The District informs Robert Broms,

Manager, Compliance

Assurance Section, Division of Water Pollution Control

(217/782—9720):

a.

the day discharge(s)

begins;

b.

the day discharge(s)

ceases;

2.

The two lagoons

(and any others)

containing the wet sludge

prior to the flood shall be dewatered to no more than a level

of one foot above the sludge;

3.

The remaining lagoons containing dry sludge shall he

dewatered to no more than

a level that will assure that no

sludge is discharged;

4.

The District shall make visual observations of its

discharge(s)

5 times per week and,

upon any noticeable change

in the discharg&s appearance that could indicate sludge

contamination, the discharge shall cease;

5.

The District shall sample the discharge for BOD,TSS,

volatile solids,

and ammonia nitrogen

5 times per week and

submit the results within 10 days after the end of each calendar

week to Robert Broms;

6.

The District shall execute

a certificate or acceptance

and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions or this

provisional variance within 10 days of the date of this Order.

The certificate shall be addressed to the Illinois Enviromnen—

tal Protection Agency, Division of Water Pollution Control,

Compliance Assurance Section,

2200 Churchill Road,

Springfield,

Illinois 62706 and shall

be

in the following form:

CERTIFICATION

I,

(We)

___

_____

,

having read

the Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board in

PC.13 83-12

dated January 27,

1983,

understand and accept said Order,

realizin~j

that such acceptance renders all terms and conditions thereto

binding and enforceable.

Petitioner

By:

Authorized Agent

Title

Date

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Board Member

J.

Anderson concurred.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan L,

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board,

hereby

c~rtifythat the above Opinion and Order

was adopte4,~onthe

~T’~

day ~

,1983 by

a

vote

of-_‘~~J

____.

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ChristanL.Mof~ett,C1erk

Illinois Pollution Control Board

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