ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    November 18, 2004
     
     
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
     
    Complainant,
     
    v.
     
    EMMETT UTILITIES UTILITIES, INC. an
    Illinois corporation, and RUSSELL D.
    THORELL, individually and as president of
    EMMETT UTILITIES UTILITIES, INC.,
     
    Respondents.
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    PCB 04-81
    (Enforcement - Water)
     
     
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by T.E. Johnson):
     
    This matter is before the Board on a complaint filed by the Office of the Attorney
    General, on behalf of the People of the State of Illinois (People), against Emmett Utilities, Inc.
    and Russell D. Thorell (respondents). The complaint concerns allegations that respondents
    violated provisions of the Environmental Protection Act and Board regulations by (1) failing to
    protect the safety of a public water supply; (2) failing to provide continuous operation and
    maintenance of a public water supply; (3) allowing discharges of untreated effluent, raw sewage,
    and overflows into an unnamed tributary to the LaMoine River; (4) causing offensive conditions,
    including unnatural color, odor, sludge, and turbidity in the receiving stream; and (5) violating
    the conditions of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit number IL0071030.
    The complaint involves the respondents’ public water supply and wastewater treatment facilities
    at Stratford West townhouse subdivision near Macomb, McDonough County.
     
    On November 12, 2004, the People filed a motion for voluntary dismissal. In the motion,
    the People assert that Russell Thorell is deceased, and that the executor of the Thorell estate
    intends to convey ownership of Emmett Utilities, Inc. to another party that will be responsible
    for providing sewer and water services to the users at Stratford West. Mot. at 1. The motion is
    granted. The Board hereby dismisses the complaint, and closes the docket.
     
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
     
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board
    adopted the above order on November 18, 2004, by a vote of 5-0.
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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