A. The Nebraska Solvents Company Site (“Site”) is located in the eastern portion of the City of Grand Island in Hall County, Nebraska, and in a portion of western Merrick County. The Site consists of one area of groundwater contamination and an associated source area which resulted from the historical mismanagement of industrial solvents.
B. The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) approved on March 21, 2011 a Remedial Action Plan (RAP) dated February 1, 2010. The RAP identified one contaminant source area located at a facility at 1200 Highway 30 East that has resulted in contamination in the groundwater which trend to the east and then northeast.
C. The RAP presented the selected remedies for the source area and the plume. A component of the selected remedies in the approved RAP is the enactment by the City of Grand Island of an institutional control ordinance designating a Groundwater Control Area through which groundwater use would be restricted to prevent human exposure and consumption of contaminated groundwater and prohibit the installation of new wells supplying water for human consumption in the plume area. This institutional control ordinance is to remain in full force and effect until the groundwater contamination identified in the RAP is reduced to a level making the groundwater safe to be used as a source of drinking water pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300f –300j-26, or its successor legislation.
(Added by Ordinance No. 9370, effective 04-03-2012)