ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

June

28, 1973

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MR.

~ MRS. JOHN E.

SCOTT

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PCB 73-197

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr.

Dumelle)

Petition was filed May

9,

1973 to obtain

a variance from the

sewer connection ban in the North Shore Sanitary District to connect

the Scott home

at

2407 14th Street

in North Chicago

to the sanitary

sewer.

On May 10 the Board asked

for more information on this situa-

tion.

No hearing was held.

On May 30

a letter was received from the Lake County Board

of Health stating that the ‘~soilhas severe

limitations, with

impervious clay subsoil.t’

The letter also states that septic effluent

is surfacing in

a roadside ditch, flowing through

a culvert and

then on the ground in

a wooded area near a housing project.

This Board has recognized the dangers to the public from

septic effluents which may contain viruses of hepatitis or polio

and other disease causing

organisms.

The variance

is granted and

connection is permitted to the sanitary sewer.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board,

hereby certify the above Opinion and Order were adopted on

the

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day of June,

1973 by

a vote of

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Cliristan

L. Moffett,

Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board