- The Board Will Hold Hearings on IEPA Proposal to Amend Boron, Fluoride, and
Manganese Water Quality Standard Rules, R11-18
The Illinois Pollution Control Board (Board), on December 16, 2010, accepted for
hearing a proposal to amend the Board’s water quality standard (WQS) rules for boron,
fluoride and manganese.
- The proposal was filed on
December 2, 2010, by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA).
- The Board adopted the existing general use & Lake Michigan basin WQS for boron,
fluoride, and manganese in 1972.
- No changes are proposed for the secondary contact and indigenous aquatic life
use standards, which the Agency states it will address in Docket R08-9(B).
- The IE...