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Ms. Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
Illinois Pollution Control Board
James R. Thompson Center
100 West Randolph Street
Suite 11-5000
Chicago, IL
60601
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VILLAGE OF HAMPSHIRECLEAKS
OFFICE
DEC
072004
STATE OF ILLINOIS
Pollution Control Board
RE: Docket No. R-04-021
Revisions to Radium Water Quality Standards
Dear Ms. Gunn:
The Village of Hampshire, Kane County, Illinois owns and operates a Public
Water Supply currently consisting of four deep sandstone wells (Wells No. 5, 6,
7 and 9). All of the existing wells exceed the current combined radium potable
water standard of 5.0 pCi/I. The Village of Hampshire has selected the cation
exchange treatment process to remove the combined radium to below drinking
water standards from the deep sandstone wells. The Wells No. 5and 6 Water
Treatment Plant, the Well No. 7 Water Treatment Plant and the Well No. 9
Water Treatment Plant are currently in service.
The cation exchange treatment process requires that the cations, including
radium, removed from the water during treatment be discharged to the sanitary
sewer system. The Village of Hampshire owns and operates a sanitary sewer
system and a wastewater treatment facility (WWTF).
Since the WWTF
discharges to Hampshire Creek, an effluent dominated receiving stream, the
Village will likely have difficulty complying with the existing water quality
standard of 1.0 pCi/I for radium 226. Enforcement of the overly restrictive water
quality standard could result in occasional or frequent violation and require
additional expenditure of public funds without an associated benefit to the public
or aquatic and riparian life associated with the stream. Therefore, the Village of
~Hampshiresupports th.e approval of the proposal to implement revised water
quality standards for radium concentrations in the receiving stream.
Village President
William P Schmidt
December 6, 2004
234 So. State Street/1?O. Box 457 / Hampshire, illinois 60140-0457 / Phone 847-683-2181 / Fax 847-683-4915
Ms.
Dorothy M. Gunn
December 6, 2004
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The Village of Hampshire appreciates the opportunity to provide comments to
the Illinois Pollution Control Board on this important issue to our community.
Respectfully submitted,
Bradley P. Sanderson, P.E.
Senior Project Manager
Engineering Enterprises, Inc
William P. Schmidt
Village President
Village of Hampshire
BPS/WPS/tpf
PC:
Mr. Chuck Anderson, Village Trustee
Atty. Mark Schuster, Village Attorney
Ms. Linda Vasquez, Village Clerk
Mr. John Bidinger, Supt. Of Public Works
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