North Shore Sanitary District v. Pollution Control Board

Complaints were filed with the Illinois Pollution Control Board (Board) charging the North Shore Sanitary District (District) with, among other things, polluting the waters of Lake Michigan by discharging into the lake inadequately treated effluent. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency was granted leave to intervene. The complaints were consolidated for hearing before the Board, and on March 31, 1971, the Board entered its order, which contained extensive findings of fact and ordered the District “to cease and desist from polluting the waters of Lake Michigan and the waters of the…