ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL
    BOARD
    June 14, 1973
    MRS. PAMELA TREPANIER
    #73-203
    V.
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY
    )
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (BY SAMUEL T. LAWTONF JR.):
    Petitioner
    seeks a variance from our Order in League of
    Women Voters
    v. North Shore Sanitary District,##70-7,
    12, 13, 14,
    1 PCB 369 (March 31, 1971), in order to obtain a sewer connection
    permit for an existing single-family residence located in Waukegan,
    which would be tributary to the ClaveyRoad sewage treatment plant.
    The Agency has determined that the sewer to which ~etitioner1s
    proposed connection would be tributary has adequate capacity
    to transport petitioner’s waste water volume.
    Petitioner’s home is presently serviced by a septic tank
    system which, although recently repaired, is still inadequate.
    The Lake County Health Department has advised the Agency that although
    a new seepage field had been installed because of neighbor complaints
    concerning surface discharge from petitioner’s original septic system,
    the new septic system was effective only for a few months and the
    discharge problem recurred. The topography and soil conditions are
    such that adequate operation of petitioner’s septic system seems
    unlikely, irrespective of any repair or renovation.
    It would appear that the continued operation of petitioner’s
    septic system would constitute a health hazard and it has been so
    characterized by the Lake County Health Department. This is parti-
    cularly a consequence of the existence of nearby individual wells
    which are subject to contamination by petitioner~s septic discharges.
    We believe the hardship on the community is
    far
    greater in
    denying the variance than in allowing it and, accordingly, we grant
    the petition for variance as requested allowing petitioner7s property
    to be connected to sewer facilities tributary to the ClavCY Road
    sewage treatment plant. See Elsa J. Miller v. Environmental Pro-
    tection Agency, #73-43; James Clark v. Environmental Protection
    8
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    293
    Agency, #73-38; Winsor v. Environmental Protection Agency, #71-334;
    and Robert J. Bartell v, Environmental Protection Agency, #72-382.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, christan Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board, certify
    that the above Opinion and Order was adopted on the 14~’day of
    June, 1973, by a vote of
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