ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    October
    4,
    1973
    PLOCH IMPORT MOTORS,
    INC.,
    Petitioner,
    PCB 73—292
    vs.
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    OPINION ?~NDORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr.
    Seaman)
    Petitioner, Ploch Import Motors,
    Inc., filed
    a petition
    for variance which was received by the Environmental Protection
    Agency
    (Agency)
    on July 18,
    1973.
    Petitioner seeks relief from Order #7 of League of
    Women Voters vs. North Shore Sanitary District,
    PCB 70-7,
    12,
    13, and 14 to allow the connection of
    a small office
    building to the Lake Bluff sewage system.
    The building is
    presently served by
    a septic system.
    The Pollution Control Board
    (Board)
    on July 20,
    1973,
    determined that the petition was inadequate.
    The Lake County
    Department of Public Health was requested to supply the Board
    a report as to the present state of the Ploch Import Motors,
    Inc.
    septic system and a recommendation as to disposition of
    this case by the Board.
    The report from Lake County was
    received by the Agency on August
    3,
    1973.
    T~gencyinvestigations indicate that the proposed sewer
    connection would be tributary to the Clavey Road sewage treatment
    plant, which is owned and operated by the North Shore Sanitary
    District.
    The report from the Lake Courity~HealthDepartment is
    not a complete response to the Boar~d’srequest of July 19 since
    no recommendation was made as to ~thedisposition of the case.
    The Health Department indicates that both the septic sewer pipe
    and the septic tank have recently been damaged.
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    There
    is, however,
    no showing of the cost of repair.
    The Board has in other cases allowed variances where
    a health hazard exists and cannot be eliminated with
    reasonable costs.
    (See e.g. Miller v. Environmental
    Protection Ager~ç~,PCB 73-43; Clark v. Environmental
    Protection Agency, PCB 73-38; Winsor v. Environmental
    Protection Agency, PCB 71-334; and Bartell v. Environmental
    Protection Agency, PCB 72-382.)
    The Agency believes that the present case
    is distinguishable
    from the above cited cases,
    in that the Petitioner has
    failed to show that a health hazard presently exists and
    that even if a health hazard did exist that it could not be
    easily eliminated.
    We agree.
    ORDER
    IT IS THE ORDER of the Pollution Control Board that
    this petition be dismissed without prejudice.
    I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, certify that the above Opinion and Order was
    adopted by the Board c~nthe
    ‘/~
    day of
    ______________
    1973, by
    a vote of
    ~
    to
    ____________
    o
    J~4~S~
    9—412

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