ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
July 18, 1972
In the matter of
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PETITION FOR VARIANCE BY
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PCB 72-74
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE
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COUNTY OF WABASH, ILLINOIS
George W. Woodcock, Esq., for the Petitioner
Thomas J. Immel, Assistant Attorney General for the EPA
OPINION OF THE BOARD (by Mr. Dumeile)
This opinion is being adopted in support of the order previously
entered herein on June 29, 1972.
This is a petition for variance filed by the Housing Authority to
allow it to connect a proposed housing project to the existing
City of Mt. Carmel sanitary sewer system. Hearing was held on
June 7, 1972.
The project would consist of 44 single family houses under the
D2partment of Housing and Urban Development, Housing Assistance,
Home Ownership Program for Low Income Families. The expected
completion date would be during the summer of 1973. The ne~whouses
will replace 42 existing substandard houses which will be demolished
by City authorities, thus resulting in a net increase of waste water
from only two single family houses.
The Mt. Carmel sewage treatment plant is reported to consist of a
primary clarifier and a pumping station and discharges a highly
unsatisfactory effluent to Great House Creek. Preliminary approval
of proposed upgraded facilities was given by the Agency on March 23, 1972,
We concur with the Agency recommendation and will grant the variance
based upon the fact that the existing housing is substandard and also
that there will be a net increase of waste water from only two single
family houses over and above the present total number. We feel that
under these circumstances the need to replace and upgrade the current
substandard houses far outweighs the net increase of waste water
from only two additional houses.
This opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of fact and conclusions
of law.
I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution ~ontrol
Board, hereby certify the a~oveOpinion was adopted on the/i_~day of
July, 1972 by a vote of
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