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Project Name: DMR2011 CBI?

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TELEPHONE CALL RECORD

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Date: 11/25/13 Time: 5:00 am

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Company Name: Latham Water Treatment Plant, Latham, IL ERG Staff Name: Kimberly Bartell

Contact Name: Michael Patridge Contact Phone Number: (217) 306-0198

General Subject: 2011 DMR Data

TOPICS DISCUSSED AND ACTION TAKEN

Dave Sparrow: 217-855-9751 (contact from permit) – phone number from ECHO doesn’t work anymore 

(2176743782)

Terry Williams: 217-631-xxxx (also from permit, last four numbers are illegible)

The facility phone number (217-674-3782) gives an odd recording – not usable. 

On November 25th at 5pm I called Mr. Sparrow and left a message.

On December 5th at 10:30am I called Mr. Sparrow. He is retired from Latham Water Treatment plant but gave 

me a phone number he had: 217-675-3514. I called this number which is now disconnected. 

On December 5th at 1pm I called ILEPA to request a contact number for this facility. I was transferred to Sharon 

Dawson and I left a message for her. The general FOIA requests number is 217-558-5101 (Tom Reuter is the 

FOIA officer).

On December 9th, at 2:20pm I called the general FOIA requests number and spoke with a receptionist. She 

confirmed that their copy of the permit looks like ours and the phone number is not legible. She suggested I 

speak with a permit engineer who could give me a contact number. I was transferred to the permitting 

department and asked speak with an industrial permit engineer. I left a message for Leslie Lowry. 

At 3:30pm Ms. Lowry returned my call and stated that she did not have the facility contact info and that the 

records department should have it. She suggested calling the mayor’s office of the City of Latham. I called the 

records department once again but no one answered. 

On December 10th, at 9am I called the Logan County Department of Public Health (where Latham, IL is located 

– 217-735-2317) and they were able to give me a phone number for Latham (217-674-3782). This is the same 

number that gives the odd recording and is not usable; the public health department didn’t have any other phone 

numbers. I looked up a number for the city of Latham (217-674-3743) but this number is disconnected. I also 

found a number for the municipal government of the city (217-674-3311) but this number is also disconnected.

I called the Decatur Mayor’s Office (217-424-2804) and spoke to someone who gave me the number for the 

water treatment person for the Village of Forsyth – the contact is Larry Coloni (217-877-9445). I called the 

Village of Forsyth and they took my information and told me that Mr. Coloni would get in touch with me. 
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I called the Village of Forsyth back and they gave me the maintenance department number where Larry Coloni 

works (217-877-1653). I spoke with Mr. Coloni and he did not know the contact for the Latham Water Plant. 

The contact has recently changed. He suggested calling the EPA Regional Office to see if they can help. The 

Champaign regional office is 217-278-5800. 

I called the Champaign regional office and spoke with Steve. He suggested that I look on the Illinois website 

under Drinking Water Watch (http://163.191.83.31/dww/index.jsp - available from the main IL EPA webpage, 

click Drinking Water Information on the right hand side). Contacts for Latham are listed on this website. He 

also suggested I call the Springfield Regional office if I need more information because they cover the Latham 

plant (217-557-8761). 

Latham Water Plant

111 East Park Street

Latham, IL 62543

ILG640042

From IL EPA Drinking Water Watch:

On December 18th, I called Michael Patridge (217-306-0198), listed as the operator in charge on ILEPA’s 

Drinking Water Watch website. He stated that the water plant serves around 300 people and that because there 

is no sewer system in Latham, the drinking water plant has a backwash from iron filters that goes to a sand filter 

and then is discharged to surface water. Mr. Patridge stated that the max daily flow is 2,000 gallons per day and 

that typically is around 0.001 MGD on average. He also stated that chlorine levels should be around 0.01-0.02 

mg/L and iron levels should be 0.5 or less. The chlorine is stripped out on the sand filter so concentrations are 

low. His email is mrpatridge@yahoo.com.