ILLINOIS

POLLUTION

CONTROL

 BOARD

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I

ENTRAL

OUPAGE

 HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

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 74— :64

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION

AGENCY

Respondent

IN1~1MOPINION of the B3ard

 (by Mr.

 Dumefle):

This Opinion

is

 in support of

 an ORDER granting the sewer connection

and issued

 ~ovember

22,

 1974.

Petition for variance

 to permit

 a sewer connection

 to the Village of

Wirifield sewage treatment plant

 in DuPaqe

 County was

 filed on October

9,

1974.

 No public hearing was held.

The

 Environmental

 Protection Agency filed

its

recommendation

November 18,

 1974 and recommended

 a grant of the variance instanter.

On

November 19,

 1974, just three days before

 the Board made its decision, the

Petitioner moved that the matter be decided

 on November 22 because of the

expiration of bids on November 30.

The variance petition asks for relief from Sections

 12 and 39 of

the

Environmental Protection Act and Rule 927 of Chapter 3 (which are the Water

Pollution Regulations of the Board).

 The Central

 DuPage Hospital

 Association

(“Hospital’) operates

 a 241-bed hospital

on

 a 40-acre site in Winfield.

Its

primary service area contains

 in excess of 100,000 residents in central,

western and northern DuPage County.

Average occupancy in

 the hospital

 for the first half of 1974 was 90.3

and

at times

all

 beds were occupied,

it

is

 alleged.

In

 1972,

 the petition states,

an addition of 150-beds was planned

 of which

 112—beds were to be installed and

staffed.

 Fees and expenditures of some ~80O,O0O

 were incurred for this project.

 refinancing of debt and fundinq

 for the addition of $20,000,000 was secured

through

 the Illinois Health Facilities

 Authority.

Construction of the addition

is

 scheduled to

 begin November 1974.

 The fol-

lowing schedule

 is planned.

New Facilities

 in operation

 November 1976

40-bed unit staffed

 November 1976

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 staffed

 )urinq 1977

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The Village of Winfield was unable to provide sewer service to the

Hospi~land had hoped that the Board’s DuPage Regionalization pr~eedings

(R 70—17) would bring

 a solution,

 The Board

 issued

 its Order in R 70-17

on August 29, 1974 and

 its Opinion

 on September 27,

 1974.

 West Chicago,

which was designated as

 one of the major treatment plants and was to have

accepted Winfield’s wastes,

 has appealed the DuPage Regionalization regu1a~

tion to the Appellate Court.

 Consequently it is not known how long

it

wilt

take to resolve the legal questions raised.

The Winfield sewage treatment plant

 is said to be “hydraulically and

organically overloaded”.

 The hospital alleges

 a bid ex~irationdate of

November 30,

 1974 but speaks of the necessity to enter into

 a firm construc-

tion contract before October 31, 1974,

 a date since passed.

The Agency’s

 recommendation

 is for

 a grant of the variance.

The

Agency asserts that the Winfield sewage plant, designed for 0.5 million

gallons per day (MGD), averaged 1.61 MGD for the period from August

1972

through July 1973.

 Bypassing of sewage occurred during 11.3 days per month

in the average

in

 this same period.

 The average daily amount bypassed was

1.86 MGD which

is

 in excess of flow through the plant.

As to the need for the hospital beds

 in northern DuPage County,

the

Agency states that the total

 hospital bed need

 is 818 beds and only 633

beds are now in existence,

 leaving

 a need of 185 as delineated

 in the Health

Facilities Plan issued by the Comprehensive State Health Planning P.gency.

A letter was received by Board

 on November 20, 1974 from the President

of the DuPage County Comprehensive Health Planning Agency.

 It pointed out

that the 185-bed “need” cited above was based upon 1972 data and that a 291-

bed facility was under construction in Downers Grove.

 The letter went on

to state that its Board of Directors could not make

 a formal recommendation

until January 8,

 1975.

 This of course, would be well past the November 30

date for expiration of the bids.

The Board feels that the record

 in this case

 is deficient.

 Neither the

hospital

 nor the Agency delineate the damage,

 if any, caused by the constant

bypassing of sewage to the West Branch of the OuPage River.

 The possible al-

ternative of requiring holding tanks,

 as has been done in

 a dozen cases

in

the Rockford area,

 is not mentioned or discussed.

 Data for the Winfield plant

end at August 1973 or 14 months prior to the date of the recommendation.

We

 do not

know the present extent of bypassing because of the lack of recent data.

The alleged fact of the expiration of bids

 is not proven.

 We are not

told when the bids were taken nor with whom or the amount.

On

 the other hand,

 the 52,400 gallons per day of domestic waste will

not

flow, even partially,

 until

 November 1976 which

 is two years hence.

 With grant

priority numbers

 for Winfield and West Chicago of 131 and 132 it seems reason-

able that these projects will

 be funded soon and will proceed reasonably par-

allel with construction of the hospital

 addition.

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Dr

 Odell dissents. Mr.

 Zeitlin aossaired

I, Chr~stanL. Moffett, ~erk of the

 Itinois Pollution Controt

 Board,

cetify that the above Opinion was adopted by

 the Board on the

~

day

~

 1975,

by

 a vcte of

to

~stanL.Moffett,

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