ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

June

21, 1973

AMETEK,

INCORPORATED

#73-172

v.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(BY SAMUEL

T.

LAWTON,

JR.):

Petitioner, Ametek, Incorporated, has filed a petition

for variance from Rule 921(a)

of the Water Regulations with respect

to permits and from the provisions of our August 22, 1972 Order

entered in case entitled Environmental Protection Agency v

City

of Silvis,

#71-157 (Augus~?22, 1972), which order provided inter

alia as

follows:

“The Cities of Silvis and East Moline shall not permit

the construction of any new sewers or other source of waste

to their facilities, or any increase in the strength or

concentration of waste discharged to their facilities un-

less permitted so to do, either by variance or otherwise.”

We grant the variances as requested.

Petitioner owns and operates a manufacturing facility in

East Moline employing approximately 650 employees.

Washroom facili-

ties used by approximately 240 employees discharge 4,000 GPD of

waste water to company—owned cesspools.

Effluent from the cesspools

flows into the East Moline storm drainage system which

is tributary

~o the Mississippi River.

In addition, petitioner has been author-

ized by Agency permit to discharge 46,000 GPD of uncontaminated

well water into the same storm system.

While the Agency does not believe that the conditions of the

East Moline sewage treatment plant have improved sufficiently to

justify

a lifting of the limitations imposed in our August 22,

1972 Order,

it believes that the effluent generated by the peti-

tioner above-described would be of such a minimal nature that the

variance should be granted, particularly in consideration of the

alternatives of allowing the effluent to continue to be pumped

into the storm water system or imposing on petitioner the obliga-

tion to construct

a package treatment plant which would cost in

excess of $50,000.

The total increased sanitary flow,

if the

variance is granted to permit connection to the East Moline Sanitary

Sewer System would be only 40 population equivalent and does not

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represent a discernible waste water load increase except possibly

during peak flow periods.

In addition, connection of petitioner’s

sanitary waste facilities to the East Moline system would enable

petitioner’s waste water to be chlorinated under ordinary plant

flow conditions, which

is preferable

to untreated waste into the storm

sewer system.

The City’s sewer system is presently capable of handling the

additional hydraulic waste water load.

The connection,

as proposed,

would enable implementation of

a finalized solution to the problem

rather than reliance on interim measures.

Allowance of the variances

would enable connection of petitioner’s sanitary sewer extension to the

East Moline sewer system prior to December,

1975, which is the contem-

plated date for completion of a secondary treatment facility pursuant

to the upgrading of the East Moline plant provided in our Order entered

in #72-460 relating to the Bi-State Planning Commission regionalization

program.

This opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions

of law of the Board.

Variance is granted to the petitioner, Z~metek,Incorporated,

from the provisions of Section 921(a)

and Board Order of August 22,

1972, entered in #71—157 above quoted,

to enable connection of

petitioner’s proposed sanitary sewer extension to the East Moline

sewer system.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board, certify

that the above Opinion and Order was adopted on the ct~f’~”day

of

June,

1973, by

a vote of

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