ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

April 17, 1972

PARK MANOR TOWN HOUSE APTS.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Opinion

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Order of the Board (by Mr. Currie):

Park Manor operates an extended aeration plant treating the

sewage of its 24 apartments. EPA reports that the plant

“appeared to be operating in a satisfactory manner and within

the present requirements of Section 404 BOD and suspended solids

of the Board’s Water Regulations” but to produce an effluent with

a high fecal coliform count.

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The petition asks to be excused

from planning and constructing expensive additional facilities,

originally required by July, 1972 and now required by December,

1973, on the ground that by the end of 1972 the plant is to

be abandoned and a connection made to a new municipal facility

soon to be completed. EPA recommends the variance be granted

on condition that by July 31, 1972 chlorination facilities be

installed and permission to make the sewer connection be obtained.

We think on these conditions the request is reasonable.

Phasing out small inefficient plants is in accord with Board

policy, see DuPage Regionalization, #R 70-17 (Jan. 6, 1972),

and we do not think it good policy to require expensive improve-

ments to such facilities if they are to be replaced in a short

time. We must, however, have prompt assurance that the plant

will in fact be replaced, and we agree with EPA that interim

disinfection ought to be practiced, cf. EPA v. John T. LaForge

Co., # 70-39 (April 28, 1971), in order to avoid immediate health

hazards.

ORDER

Park Manor Town House Apts. is hereby granted a variance

for one year from the PCB Regs., Ch. 3, Rule 1002(b) (ii), insofar

as it requires the filing and approval of a schedule for completing

improvements to meet the advanced treatment requirements of

Rule 404(c) and (f), on the following conditions:

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(1) Park Manor shall install temporary disinfection

facilities by July 31, 1972, to achieve compliance

with Rule 405 of PCB Regs., Ch. 3; and

(2) Park Manor shall provide satisfactory evidence to the

Board and to the EPA that it has received permission

to make the sewer connections required to the

Lincolnshire Sewage Treatment Plant.

I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board, certify

that the Board adopted the above Opinion

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Order this 17th day

of April, 1972, by a vote of 4—0.

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