ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

July 18,

1972

BARTLOW BROTHERS,INC.

#72—222

ENVIRONMENTAL

P

ROTECTI

ON

AGENCY

Preliminary

Opinion

&

Order

of

the

Board

(by Mr. Currie)

This

petition requested an extension

of

the July 1,

1972

deadline for disinfection

of effluent from the company~s meat

packing plant lagoon system

at

Rushviile

on

the

ground

that

dis-~

charge of that effluent

to

the municipal treatment facilities

would

be accomplished

~in July 1972.~

The implication being

that

it

would

be a gross waste of money

to require

:Lnstallation of

chlorination

facilities for a few

days

of service,

we

scheduled

no hearing but

held the case pending the Agency

s recommendation.

The ~gency~s recommendation, however, alleges completion

of the present expansion of the City plant will not make

room

for

the company~s wastes because there will

still

be insufficient

capacity.

If this

is so, then what appeared to he an obvious

grant becomes quite a different case indeed~ for we are ~~ft with

no indication as

to

when,

if ever, compliance would be

achieved

if

the petition were granted.

The Agency~sposition that it will not permit the company

to connect to the City system upon completion of the present

construction undermines the entire basis

of

the petition for

variance.

We think the company will want the opportunity to

reassess its situation in light of the recommendation,

We

therefore shall allow until August

1,

1972 for the submission

of

a revised petition setting forth the company~scurrent program

for compliance with the disinfection requirement in the shortest

practicable

time,

We call the company’s attention,

as the Agency

has done,

to the procedural rules- of this Board in respect to the

required

contents

of

a variance petition.

In the meantime we shall

withhold

action

on

the

original

It

is

so

ordered.

I,

Christan

Moffett,

Clerk

of

the

Pollution

Control

Board,

certify

that ,~heBoard adopted

the above Preliminary Opinion

& Order this

/~‘

‘~

day of July,

1972, by

a vote of________

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