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    BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    )
    WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND
    )
    EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FOR THE
    )
    R08-9
    CHICAGO AREA WATERWAY SYSTEM
    )
    (Rulemaking – Water)
    AND THE LOWER DES PLAINES RIVER:
    )
    PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO 35 ILL.
    )
    Adm. Code Parts 301, 302, 303, and 304
    )
    NOTICE OF FILING
    To:
    John Therriault, Clerk
    Stefanie N. Diers, Assistant Counsel
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency
    1021 North Grand Avenue East
    James R. Thompson Center
    P.O. Box 19276
    100 West Randolph St., Suite 11-500
    Springfield, IL 62794-9276
    Chicago, IL 60601
    Marie Tipsord, Hearing Officer
    Persons on the attached service list
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    James R. Thompson Center
    100 West Randolph St, Suite 11-500
    Chicago, Il 60601
    Please take notice that today I filed with the office of the Clerk of the Pollution Control
    Board
    Prefiled Questions of the Natural Resources Defense Council to Geeta K.
    Rijal
    , a copy of which is hereby served on you.
    ___________________________
    Ann Alexander
    Dated: August 22, 2008
    Ann Alexander
    Senior Attorney, Midwest Program
    Natural Resources Defense Council
    101 North Wacker Dr., Ste. 609
    Chicago, IL 60606
    312-780-7427
    312-663-9920 (fax)
    AAlexander@nrdc.org
    Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 22, 2008
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    CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
    I, Ann Alexander, the undersigned attorney, hereby certify that I have served the attached
    Prefiled Questions of the Natural Resources Defense Council to Geeta K. Rijal
    on all
    parties of record (Service List attached), by depositing said documents in the United
    States Mail, postage prepaid, from 227 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60606, before the hour
    of 5:00 p.m., on this 22nd Day of August, 2008.
    ___________________________________________
    Ann Alexander, Natural Resources Defense Council
    Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 22, 2008
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    Service List
    Richard J. Kissel and Roy M. Harsch
    Drinker, Biddle, Gardner, Carton
    191 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 3700
    Chicago, IL 60606-1698
    Bernard Sawyer and Thomas Granto
    Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
    6001 West Pershing Road
    Cicero, IL 60650-4112
    Deborah J. Williams and Stefanie N. Diers
    Assistant Counsel, Division of Legal Counsel
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    1021 North Grand Avenue East
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield, IL 62794-9276
    James L. Daugherty, District Manager
    Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District
    700 West End Avenue
    Chicago Heights, IL 60411
    Kevin G. Desharnais, Thomas W. Diamond
    and Thomas V. Skinner
    Mayer, Brown LLP
    71 South Wacker Drive
    Chicago, IL 60606-4637
    Tracy Elzemeyer, General Counsel
    American Water Company Central Region
    727 Craig Road
    St. Louis, MO 63141
    Robert VanGyseghem
    City of Geneva
    1800 South Street
    Geneva, IL 60134-2203
    Claire Manning
    Brown, Hay & Stephens LLP
    700 First Mercantile Building
    205 South Fifth St., P.O. Box 2459
    Springfield, IL 62705-2459
    Matthew J. Dunn, Chief
    Office of the Attorney General
    Environmental Bureau North
    69 West Washington, Suite 1800
    Chicago, IL 60602
    Katherine D. Hodge and Monica T. Rios
    Hodge Dwyer Zeman
    3150 Roland Avenue
    P.O. Box 5776
    Springfield, IL 62705-5776
    Charles W. Wesselhoft and James T. Harrington
    Ross & Hardies
    150 North Michigan Avenue
    Suite 2500
    Chicago, IL 60601-7567
    Margaret P. Howard
    Hedinger Law Office
    2601 South Fifth Street
    Springfield, IL 62703
    Jerry Paulsen and Cindy Skrukrud
    McHenry County Defenders
    132 Cass Street
    Woodstock, IL 60098
    Keith I. Harley and Elizabeth Schenkier
    Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc.
    205 West Monroe, 4
    th
    Floor
    Chicago, IL 60606
    Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 22, 2008
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    William Richardson, Chief Legal Counsel
    Illinois Department of Natural Resources
    One Natural Resources Way
    Springfield, IL 62702
    Fred L. Hubbard
    Attorney at Law
    16 West Madison
    P.O. Box 12
    Danville, IL 61834
    Lisa Frede
    Chemical Industry Council of Illinois
    2250 E. Devon Avenue
    Suite 239
    Des Plaines, IL 60018-4509
    W.C. Blanton
    Blackwell Sanders LLP
    4801 Main Street
    Suite 1000
    Kansas City, MO 64112
    Sharon Neal
    Commonwealth Edison Company
    125 South Clark Street
    Chicago, IL 60603
    Traci Barkley
    Prairie Rivers Networks
    1902 Fox Drive
    Suite 6
    Champaign, IL 61820
    James Huff, Vice-President
    Huff & Huff, Inc.
    915 Harger Road, Suite 330
    Oak Brook, IL 60523
    Georgie Vlahos
    Naval Training Center
    2601A Paul Jones Street
    Great Lakes, IL 60088-2845
    Cathy Hudzik
    City of Chicago, Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
    121 North LaSalle Street
    City Hall – Room 406
    Chicago, IL 60602
    Dennis L. Duffield
    Director of Public Works & Utilities
    City of Joliet, Department of Public Works & Utilities
    921 E. Washington Street
    Joliet, IL 60431
    Irwin Polls
    Ecological Monitoring and Assessment
    3206 Maple Leaf Drive
    Glenview, IL 60025
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney
    Natural Resources Defense Council
    101 North Wacker Drive, Suite 609
    Chicago, IL 60606
    Marc Miller, Senior Policy Advisor
    Jamie S. Caston, Policy Advisor
    Office of Lt. Governor Pat Quinn
    Room 414 State House
    Springfield, IL 62706
    Beth Steinhorn
    2021 Timberbrook
    Springfield, IL 62702
    Frederick D. Keady, P.E., President
    Vermillion Coal Company
    1979 Johns Drive
    Glenview, IL 60025
    Dr. Thomas J. Murphy
    DePaul University
    2325 N. Clifton Street
    Chicago, IL 60614
    Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 22, 2008
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    Susan M. Franzetti
    Nijman Franzetti LLP
    10 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 3600
    Chicago, IL 60603
    Marie Tipsord, Hearing Officer
    John Therriault, Assistant Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    100 West Randoph, Suite 11-500
    Chicago, IL 60601-7447
    Vicky McKinley
    Evanston Environmental Board
    223 Grey Avenue
    Evanston, IL 60202
    Stacy Myers-Glen
    Openlands
    25 East Washington, Suite 1650
    Chicago, IL 60602
    Albert Ettinger, Senior Staff Attorney, and Jessica Dexter
    Environmental Law and Policy Center
    35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 1300
    Chicago, IL 60601
    Susan Hedman and Andrew Armstrong, Environmental Counsel
    Environnmental Bureau
    Office of the Illinois Attorney General
    69 West Washington, Suite 1800
    Chicago, IL 60602
    Tom Muth
    Fox Metro Water Reclamation District
    682 State Route 31
    Oswego, IL 60543
    Kenneth W. Liss
    Andrews Environmental Engineering
    3300 Ginger Creek Drive
    Springfield, IL 62711
    Jack Darin
    Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter
    70 E. Lake Street, Suite 1500
    Chicago, IL 60601-7447
    Bob Carter
    Bloomington Normal Water Reclamation District
    P.O. Box 3307
    Bloomington, IL 61702-3307
    Kay Anderson
    American Bottoms RWTF
    One American Bottoms Road
    Sauget, IL 62201
    Ronald M. Hill and Margaret T. Conway
    Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
    100 East Erie Street, Room 301
    Chicago, IL 60611
    Kristy A.N. Bulleit and Brent Fewell
    Hunton & Williams LLC
    1900 K. Street, NW
    Washington, DC 20006
    Frederic P. Andes, Carolyn S. Hesse and David T. Ballard
    Barnes & Thornburg LLP
    One North Wacker Drive, Suite 4400
    Chicago, IL 60606
    Jeffrey C. Fort and Ariel Tescher
    Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
    7800 Sears Tower
    233 S. Wacker drive
    Chicago, IL 60606-6404
    Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 22, 2008
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    BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    )
    WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND
    )
    EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FOR THE
    )
    R08-9
    CHICAGO AREA WATERWAY SYSTEM
    )
    (Rulemaking – Water)
    AND THE LOWER DES PLAINES RIVER:
    )
    PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO 35 ILL.
    )
    Adm. Code Parts 301, 302, 303, and 304
    )
    PREFILED QUESTIONS OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    DEFENSE COUNCIL TO GEETA K. RIJAL
    The Natural Resources Defense Council hereby files questions to Geeta K. Rijal:
    1. Regarding District Report No. 2003-20, based on sampling conducted in 2002 –
    did this sampling compare fecal coliform levels at a monitoring location on the
    Des Plaines River with levels at a monitoring location downstream of the
    Stickney plant?
    a. Were the fecal coliform levels at the Des Plaines River Site found to be
    higher than the levels on the Sanitary and Ship Canal site?
    b. How many miles downstream of the Stickney plant was the monitoring
    location on the Sanitary and Ship Canal?
    2. Regarding District Report No. 2007-79, commenced in 2004, in which you found
    that measurable rainfall in the period March through November occurred between
    33 and 46 percent of the calendar days --
    a. Was the weather dry the rest of the time?
    b. Is it your understanding that CSOs do not occur from the District’s outfalls
    on dry weather days?
    3. To the extent you found lingering elevated fecal coliform levels following a wet
    weather event, did you conclude that those effects generally did not last for more
    than about two days?
    a. Did the levels fall during the 2 days?
    b. Did you compare levels before and after the first flush?
    c. Do you have data on how many of the wet weather days occurred
    consecutively?
    Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 22, 2008
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    4. Regarding the conclusion of the 2004 study that levels of fecal coliform indicator
    bacteria in the CAWS frequently exceed the proposed IEPA discharge standard of
    400 cfu/100 ml –
    a. What is the significance of this comparison, in your understanding?
    b. What levels of fecal coliform indicator bacteria are generally found in the
    effluent from the Northside, Calumet, and Stickney facilities currently?
    Do those numbers generally exceed 400 cfu/100 ml currently?
    5. Regarding Figure 18 on page 28 of the study –
    a. Do these show that during wet weather, the level of fecal coliform in the
    CAWS increases downstream of the wastewater treatment plant outfalls,
    correct?
    b. Do they also show that during dry weather, the level of fecal coliform
    drops off steadily downstream of the outfalls?
    Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 22, 2008

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