ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September 15, 1982
    CITY OF WEST CHICAGO,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 82—114
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by ~J.Anderson:
    On September 15, 1982 the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency (Agency)
    filed a Recommendation that the City of West
    Chicago
    (City) be granted a 45-day provisional variance from
    the 15 pCi/I gross alpha particle activity limitation of Rule
    304(c)(1)(b) of chapter
    6:
    Public Water Supply.
    The City had
    received a sixteen month variance from this Rule in order to
    drill two shallow wells to produce water to blend with that
    of its deep wells in PCB 80—227,
    May 14,
    1981.
    This variance
    expired September 1,
    1982.
    Provisional variance
    is requested
    because of construction delays, and delays in receipt of
    receiving well pumps.
    Pursuant to Section 35(a)
    of the
    Illinois Environmental Protection Act,
    the Board will grant
    this provisional variance, as recommended, in light of the
    minimal environmental and health impact.
    ORDER
    1.
    Petitioner, the City of West Chicago,
    is granted a
    forty—five day provisional variance from the 15 pCi/I
    gross alpha
    particle activity limitation of Rule 304(C)(1)(b) of Chapter
    6:
    Public Water Supplies, subject to the following conditions:
    A.
    Petitioner shall,
    in consultation with the Agency,
    continue its sampling program to determine as
    accurately as possible the level of radioactivity
    in its wells and finished water.
    Testing for
    radium 226 and 228 shall be commenced.
    B.
    Petitioner shall expeditiously continue development
    of two new shallow wells as an additional source to
    blend with its current well source.
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    C.
    The petitioner shall modify its operating procedures
    so as to minimize the level of radioactivity in the
    water delivered to its users.
    D.
    Pursuant to Rule 313(D)(1) of Chapter
    6,
    in its first
    set of water bills or within three months
    after the
    date of this Order,
    whichever occurs
    first, and
    every three months thereafter,
    Petitioner will send
    to each user of its public water supply a written
    notice
    to the effect that Petitioner has been granted
    a variance from the radiological quality standards
    by
    the Pollution Control Board.
    The notice shall
    state the average content of gross alpha particle
    activity and radium, including available results
    from samples taken since the last notice period.
    3.
    Within ten days of the date of this Order, Petitioner
    shall execute and forward to the Illinois Environmental
    Protection Agency, Wayne Wiemerslage,
    PWS
    Enforcement Programs,
    2200 Churchill Road,
    Springfield,
    Illinois
    62706,
    a Certificate
    of Acceptance and Agreement to be bound
    to all terms and
    conditions of this variance.
    CERTIFICATE
    I,
    (We),
    ,
    having read
    the Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board in PCB 82—114,
    dated _________________________________, understand and accept the
    said Order, realizing that such acceptance renders all terms and
    conditions thereto
    binding and enforceable.
    Petitioner
    By:
    Authorized Agent
    Title
    Date
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Christan
    L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control B~pard,hereby ce tify that the above Order was adopted on
    the
    /~~dayof
    _________________,
    1982 by a vote of ~S—~
    Christan
    L. Mof’~f~t~J,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollutibli—’Control Board
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