CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Pass the ordinance prohibiting the use of groundwater as a potable water supply within the specified limits for the properties located at 1061 S Washington Street and 5 E Gartner Road
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: William J Novack, P.E., Director of Transportation, Engineering and Development/City Engineer
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
N/A
BACKGROUND:
Numerous properties throughout the City of Naperville have been used for commercial and industrial purposes throughout the years. Certain users like gasoline stations and dry cleaners have left a large environmental impact on the community due to spills and subsequent contamination.
Many of the current property owners have been working with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) to clean up the sites and obtain certification by issuance of a No Further Remediation (NFR) Letter by the IEPA. The NFR letter provides value and comfort to the property owner that the IEPA has certified that the site has been cleaned to the point of meeting certain standards.
The issuance of an NFR does not mean that a property is completely cleaned up. Frequently, the IEPA issues NFR's for sites that still have small amounts of contamination present, they just make sure that certain other controls are in place to protect the public health. Some of those controls include engineered barriers, such as paved parking lots or concrete slabs of structures. Another common control is a restrictive groundwater ordinance. The groundwater ordinance prohibits the use of wells for any source of potable water within the area of contamination as determined by the IEPA.
The City receives many requests for these groundwater ordinances. Petitioners are informed that they need to clean the site to the point where the groundwater ordinance is one of the last items on the IEPA task list to complete.
DISCUSSION:
The former gas station locat...
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