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BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF:
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WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND
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EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FOR THE
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R08-9
CHICAGO AREA WATERWAY SYSTEM
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(Rulemaking – Water)
AND THE LOWER DES PLAINES RIVER:
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO 35 ILL.
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Adm. Code Parts 301, 302, 303, and 304
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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 Chriso
Petropoulou
, 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 Chriso Petropoulou
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
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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
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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
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PREFILED QUESTIONS OF NATURAL RESOURCES
DEFENSE COUNCIL TO CHRISO PETROPOULOU
The Natural Resources Defense Council hereby files questions to Chriso
Petropoulou:
1. Please describe your role in the MWRD Microbial Risk Assessment study.
a. Were you responsible for any decisions concerning the scope of the study
(including the pathogens studied and the types of illness studied)?
b. Were you responsible for developing the sampling methodology?
c. We you responsible for testing the samples?
d. Who had final authority to make decisions concerning these matters?
e. Did you ever have any disagreements with those in authority concerning
any of these matters? If so, how were they resolved?
2. Regarding the statement at p. 4 of your testimony in which you identify two bases
for selecting the limited subset of pathogens studied: (i) the existence of past
outbreaks caused by these viruses, and (ii) the existence of USEPA-approved
SOPs –
a. Are outbreaks in your view an accurate indicator of the risk of a particular
pathogen?
b. Regarding the availability of USEPA-approved laboratory standard
operating procedures (“SOPs”) for measurement of these pathogens – does
the availability of SOP’s for a particular pathogen have any relationship to
the risk it poses?
3. Regarding the statement at p. 5 of your testimony that, although the
microbial analytical results were evaluated within the framework of dry
and wet weather conditions, “for the MRA [risk] estimates, the dry and
wet weather microbial results were integrated in a comprehensive dataset
representative of all weather conditions in the waterway” -- does this mean
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that in assessing post-disinfection risk, did you combined data from wet
and dry weather conditions? What was the basis for doing so?
4. Regarding the statement at p. 5 of your testimony that the Risk Assessment found
that “Downstream concentrations are consistently greater than upstream” during
dry weather --
a. For purposes of assessing risk, did you combine and average the upstream
and downstream sampling numbers?
b. What was the basis for this averaging?
5. Did the Risk Assessment find that upstream concentrations of pathogens were
generally lower than downstream concentrations during dry weather?
6. For purposes of assessing risk in the presence of disinfection, did you average the
upstream and downstream sampling concentrations?
7. Regarding the statement at p. 6 of your testimony that dry weather fecal coliform
concentrations upstream of the Northside and Stickney plants were greater than
the effluent limit of 400 cfu/100 ml proposed by IEPA –
a. What is the significance of this comparison, to your knowledge?
b. What levels of fecal coliform indicator bacteria are generally found in the
effluent from these facilities currently? Do those numbers generally
exceed 400 cfu/100 ml currently?
Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 22, 2008
