ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

June 16,

1983

In the matter of:

PROPOSED WATER QUALITY

AND

EFFLUENT STANDARDS FOR

)

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SCHOENBERGER CREEK

(PFIZER,

)

EAST ST.

LOUIS)

FINAL ORDER.

ADOPTED RULE

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by D. Anderson):

On February 10,

1983 the Board proposed to adopt

35

Ill. Adm. Code 303.353 and 304.205.

These appeared at

7

Ill, Reg,

2270, February 25,

1983.

On April

21, 1983 the

Board sent the matter to second notice with no changes in

the proposed language.

The staff of the Joint Committee on

Administrative Rules recommended addition to Section 304.205

of a reference to Section 304.124.

On June

7,

1983 the

Joint Committee made no objection to the rulemaking, condi-

tioned on addition of the reference.

The Board will adopt

Sections

303.353 and 304.205 with the changes recommended.

The complete text follows, with the changes from the first

notice Order indicated by underlining.

This Order is supported by a Final Opinion adopted on

this same date.

The text of the rules

is as follows:

Section

303.353

Schoeiiberyer Creek; Unnamed Tributary

of Cahokia Canal

a)

This rule shall apply to:

1)

The final 1500 feet of Schoenberger Creek

starting immediately south of the Baltimore

and Ohio main tracks and running north to an

unnamed tributary of the Cahokia Canal; and

2)

The unnamed tributary from its confluence

with Schoenberger Creek as

it runs west and

northwest for a distance of 8000 feet to its

confluence with the Cahokia Canal.

b)

The standard of

35 Ill. Adm. Code 302.208 for the

parameter listed below does not apply to these

waters.

Instead,

the following level shall not be

exceeded:

52~-419

---

—2—

Storet

Concentration

Constituent

Number

(mg/i)

20

Iron

(total)

01045

Section 304.204

Schoenberger Creek:

Groundwater Discharges

a)

This

rule shall apply to discharges from an exis-

ting facility owned by Pfizer

Corporation to

Schoenberger Creek immediately south of the

Baltimore and Ohio main tracks in T2N, R9~of

the

3rd P.M.,

St. Clair County.

b)

This rule shall apply only to discharges of ground-

water used as non—contact cooling water

in which

naturally

occurring background concentrations have

not been increased by industrial

or other human

use,

c)

Instead of the general effluent standards

set

forth in Section 304.124

for the listed para-

meters,

these discharges shall not exceed the

following limitations:

Storet

Concentration

Constituent

Number

(mg/i)

(4~4.---~1\

aa..

v

i.

~s

—x

..i

L

U

Total Suspended Solids

00530

37

IT

IS SO

ORDERED.

I, Christan

L. Moffett,

Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, here~ycertify t at the above Order was

a9opted

on the

________

day of

________,

1983 by a vote of

Illinois Poll

Board

52-420