ILLINOIS POLLUTION
    CONTROL
    BOARD
    December
    16,
    1962
    GREATER PEORIA SANITARY DISTRICT,
    )
    Petitioner,
    V.
    )
    PCB 82—146
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
    AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by 3.
    D. Dumelie):
    This provisional variance request comes before the Board upon
    a December 16, 1982 Recommendation of the Illinois Environmental
    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 50-
    acre sludge storage lagoon system,
    but
    to deny the variance as
    it applies to another 80—acre lagoon area which has had ground
    water seep into it.
    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 would impose an arbitrary
    or unreasonable hardship,
    Given the recommended conditions, the
    Board assumes this finding to be applicable only to the 50-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 for the 80-acre
    site,
    but
    not for the 50—acre site.
    This Order includes a condition that
    the District “complete the work to increase the elevation of the
    levees,” again as recommended.
    The Board cannot determine how
    long this should take, but assumes that such action will
    be taken
    expeditious?y,
    Pursuant to Section 35(b)
    of the
    Act, the Board hereby grants
    the provisional variance exactly as recommended.
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    2
    ORDER
    The Peoria Sanitary District is hereby granted a provisional
    variance from the Section 304,120 limitations for BOD and suspended
    solids for a period of 45 days beginning on the day the Illinois
    River has receded at Peoria to
    7,0
    feet above normal pool subject
    to the following conditions:
    1,
    The District informs Robert Broms,
    Manager, Compliance
    Assurance Section,
    Division of Water Pollution Control
    (217/782—9720) of:
    a.
    the day discharge begins by cutting the
    levee;
    b.
    the day discharge ceases.
    2.
    Only the 50—acre lagoon site will
    be drained into no
    more than a level of one foot above the sludge.
    3.
    No sludge is discharged.
    4.
    The remainder of the water shall
    be pumped back to
    the wastewater treatment plant
    for complete treatment.
    5.
    The District shall sample the discharge for BOD, total
    suspended solids, volatile solids,
    and ammonia nitrogen
    daily.
    6.
    The above
    sample results
    shall
    be submitted within
    10
    days after the discharge ceases to Robert Broms,
    Manager,
    Compliance Assurance Section, Division of Water Control.
    7.
    The District shall complete the work to increase the
    elevation of the levees.
    8.
    The District shall execute
    a certificate of acceptance
    and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions
    of this provisional variance within
    10 days of the date
    of this Order.
    The certificate shall be addressed to
    the Illinois Environmental 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 PCB 82—146 dated
    December
    16,
    1982, understand and accept said Order,
    realizing that
    such acceptance renders all terms and conditions thereto binding
    and enforceable.
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    3
    Petitioner
    By:
    Authorized Agent
    ——
    Title
    Date
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan
    L. Moffett, Clerk of
    the
    Illinois Pollution
    Control Board,
    hereby c~rtifythat
    the above Opinion
    and
    Order
    was adopted on the ~Jç~
    day
    of
    ~
    1982 by a
    vote
    of
    ~U
    ~
    _____
    Christan
    L.
    Moff~t7~k
    Illinois
    Pollution
    ~dntrol
    Board
    50-153

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