Village of Montgomery

•

Village President

Marilyn Michelini

RECEIVED

CLERK’S OFFICE

Village Clerk

Robert

Watermann

DEC 09 2004

Trustees

Roger

Burrell

STATE OF ILLINOIS

Jeanne Felten

PollutIon Control Board

Pete Heinz

December 7, 2004

Bill

Keck

Denny Lee

Uoyd Mattingly

Ms. Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

Village Manager

Ulinois Pollution Control Board

Anne Marie Gaura

James R. Thompson Center

100 West Randolph Street

Suite 11-5000

Chicago, 1L60601

RE:

Revisions to Radium Water Quality Standards

Dear Ms. Gunn:

The Village of Montgomery, Kane~.and Kendall Counties, Illinois owns and operates a Public

Water Supply currently consisting offive deep sandstone wells (Wells No 2, 3, 4~,8 and

14),

two

shallow bedrock wells (Wells No 12 and 13) and two shallow sand and ~raveIwells (Wells No

10 and

11)

Wells No 3, 4, 8 and

14

exceed the current potable water combined radium

standard of 5.0 pCi/I.

The Village of Montgomery owns and operates a Lime Softening Treatment Facility that treats

the water from Wells No. 2, 3, 4,

10,

11, 12 and 13. The water from Well No. 8 and Well 14 is

treated with satellite Cation Exchange Treatment Facilities to remove the combined radium to

below drinking water standards.

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

Montgomery sanitary sewer system is serviced by the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District

(FMWRD) Wastewater Treatment Facility (VVWTF), Oswego, IL.

Since FMWRD has a

discharge to the Fox River and because the discharge has substantial dilution with the Fox

River, it is not anticipated that there will be difficulty meeting the existing water quality standard

of 1.0 pCi/I for radium 226.

However, enforcement of the overly restrictive water quality

standard could result in occasional 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 Montgomery supports the approval of the proposal to

impiement revised water quality standards for radium concentrations in the receiving stream

1300 S. Broadway. Montgomery, IL 60538 • Phone (630) 896-8080 •

Fax

(630) 896-0791

www.cLmontgomery.iLus

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Ms. Dorothy M. Gunn

December 7, 2004

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The Village of Montgomery appreciates the opportunity to provide comments to the Illinois

Pollution Control Board on this important issue to our community.

Respectfully submitted,

Anne Marie Gaura

Village Manager

Village of Montgomery

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Mr. Mike Pubentz — Director of Public Works

Mr. Jack Rosenstiel — Water Supervisor

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