ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
January
22,
1981
VILLAGE OF HAMPSHIRE,
Petitioner,
v.
)
PCB 80—165
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
Respondent.
OPINIION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by 3. Anderson):
This matter comes before the Board on a petition for variance
filed by the Village of Hampshire
(Village) on September 10,
1980,
as amended November
3,
1980.
The Village seeks variance from the
1.0 mg/i maximum barium concentration limitation of Rule 304 of
Chapter
6, Public Water Supply.
The Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency
(Agency) originally objected to this petition,
but withdrew its objection.
The Agency recommended grant of
variance with condiLions
in its original Recommendation filed
December
1,
1980
(Rec.), and its
amended Recommendation
(Am.
Rec.)
filed December
17,
1980.
Hearing was waived, and none has been
held since no additional objections were filed with the Board.
The Village of Hampshire, which
is
located in Kane County,
daily supplies about 240,000
gallcns
of water to its 570 con-
nections from three wells drilled in shale,
limestone, and
sandstone aquifers and glacial drift.
The
primary water source,
Well
#5,
is 818 feet deep and supplies water with a barium content
of 2.0 to 2.2 mg/i.
Back up or stand—by wells
#3 and #4 are
respectively
514 and 355 feet deep.
The Village states that the
barium content of Well
#4
is 2.0 mg/i.
The barium content of Well
#3 is not given.
In the Village’s view,
its compliance options are a) to seek
barium free water from shallow aquifers for use as either a
primary
water source or a source
for blending,
or b)
to soften water from
its existing sources and thereby remove the excess barium.
The
Village has not investigated availability of a suitable shallow
aquifer water source, but notes that if one
is found,
its water
would likely need treatment to reduce the usual high iron content
of such water in Northern Illinois.
The Village estimates the
costs of a replacement well and
iron treatment plant to be $382,500.
In explanation of its identification of water softening as
the appropriate treatment technique,
the Village states that no
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304 of Chapter
6:
Public Water Supply for five years,
subject to
the following conditions:
A.
By June
1,
1981, the Petitioner shall submit to the
Agency a report on the economic feasibility of developing Well #3
and/or Well
#4 to serve as either primary wells or as blending
wells
so that finished water with a barium content of 1.0 mg/i or
less may be delivered.
B.
Beginning on or about June 1, 1981,
and at six month
intervals thereafter,
the Petitioner shall communicate with the
Agency in order to ascertain whether barium removal techniques
specifically applicable to small systems have been developed and
identified.
C.
As expeditiously after identification of a feasible
compliance method as
is practicable, but no later than January
1,
1984,
Petitioner shall submit to the Agency a program (with
increments of progress)
for bringing its system into compliance
with barium standards.
D.
Petitioner shall take all reasonable measures with its
existing equipment to minimize the level of barium in its water
supply and shall not allow the barium concentration to exceed
2.2
mg/i.
E.
On or before March
30,
1981 and every three months
thereafter Petitioner will send to each user of its public water
supply a written notice to the effect that Petitioner has been
granted by the Pollution Control Board a variance from the 1.0
mg/i maximum barium standard.
The notice shall state the average
content of barium in samples taken since the last notice period
during which samples were taken.
2.
Within forty—five days of the date of this Order,
Petitioner shall execute and forward to David L.
Rieser,
Technical
Advisor, Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency,
Enforcement
Programs,
2200 Churchill Road,
Springfield, Illinois
62706,
a
Certificate of Acceptance and Agreement to be bound to
all terms
and conditions of this variance.
This forty—five day period shall
be held in abeyance for any period this matter
is being appealed.
The form of the certificate shall be as follows:
CERTIFICATE
I,
(We),
,
having read
the Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board in PCB 80-165,
dated ___________________________, understand and accept the said
Order,
realizing that such acceptance renders all terms and con—
ditions thereto binding and enforceable.
Petitioner
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By:
Authorized
Agent
Title
Date
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I,
Christan L.
Moffett, Clerk of
the
Illinois
Pollution
Control
Board,
hereby
certify
that
the
above
Opinion and Order were adopted
on
the
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Christan
L.
Moffe4)t,
Clerk
Illinois
Polluti6ii
Control
Board
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