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.

 Christan L.

 Moffett, Clerk of

the

Illinois

Pollution

Control

Board,

hereby

certify

that

the

above

 Opinion and Order were adopted

the

day

1981

by

vote

“I

I

——

Christan

 Moffe4)t,

Clerk

Illinois

Polluti6ii

Control

Board

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