ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June
    21, 1973
    )
    KENNETH S.
    SMIITALA
    )
    )
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 73-213
    )
    )
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    )
    )
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Dumelle)
    On May
    23,
    1973 Mr. Smitala submitted
    a petition for variance
    to connect
    a gasoline service station and a “small fabricating business”
    to the sanitary sewer in Lake County.
    Attached to his petition is
    a March
    27, 1973 “Notice of Violation” from the Lake County Health
    Department stating that “septic effluent discharges
    to roadside
    ditch” were noted.
    The Agency in its recommendation filed June
    14, 1973 asks for
    a denial until “a verified statement that inadequacies of the present
    septic system cannot be solved by repair or redesign”
    is provided.
    We
    do not think that a verified statement
    is necessary.
    The Board
    in many previous opinions has opted for septic tank disconnections.
    And in this case,
    the Lake County Health Department is on record
    as
    observing septic effluents coming into
    a ditch.
    Effluents from
    septic tanks are health hazards and carry the viruses
    of hepatitis
    and polio and other diseases.
    A June 20, 1973 letter from the Lake County Health Department
    confirms the unsuitability of the soil
    for proper septic tank and
    field operation.
    The County letter also states
    that no “small fabri-
    cating business”
    is located here but that
    a “vending service”
    facility does exist.
    The variance is granted
    as
    to the vending service facility and
    the gasoline service station.
    If a “fabricating business” is con-
    templated then the petitioner may repetition giving adequate facts
    about
    it.
    ORDER
    Variance is granted from the League of Women Voters v. North
    Shore Sanitary District order
    (PCB
    70-7,
    12,
    13,
    14)
    to permit facility
    connection of the gasoline service station and vending service
    at
    1300 Skokie Highway in Shields Township of Lake Bluff to the
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    sanitary sewer tributary to the North Shore Sanitary District
    Clavey Road Plant.
    IT
    IS
    SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Christan I~. Moffett, Clerk of
    the Illinois Pollution Control
    Boar~,hereby certify the above Opinion and Order were adopted on the
    ~
    _day of June,
    1973 by a vote of
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