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RESOLUTION NO. 1381
WHEREAS, the Village of Plainfield requires the extension of water lines and water
storage reservoirs in the vicinity of 127th Street to acquire and effectively distribute
Lake Michigan water; and
WHEREAS, the Village of Plainfield is under direction of the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency to move with dispatch to secure a healthy alternate source of water
and hereby declares that the property acquisition is within the public purpose needs of the
Village of Plainfield;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the President and Board of Trustees of the
Village of Plainfield that the Village Staff be so instructed to prepare appraisals and
purchase offers to acquire the necessary rights of way and properties to implement the
expeditious acquisition of this alternate water source;
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that should the Village Staff be unable to acquire
the aforementioned properties in a reasonable time, the Staff is then authorized to petition
the State of Illinois and ask their assistance in acquiring said properties.
LLA E P SIDE T
PASSED THIS 1$TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2003.
AYES: Waldorf, Collins, Rock.
NAPES: O'Connell, Fay
ABSENTS Swalwell, Thomson.
APP~iOVED THIS 1$"th DAY OF August, 2003.
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STATEMENT OF PUBLIC PURPOSE
Historically, the Village of Plainfield's potable water supply was provided by deep well
water. Since the late 1970's, the Village operated these wells under a variance granted by
the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency because the wells naturally produced water
containing an excess of combined radium standards. The United States Environmental
Protection Agency has since ruled that the standard shall be enforced and the IEPA
required the Village of Plainfield to create a plan to remedy the violation, and the Village
subsequently entered into a Compliance Agreement with the IEPA. As a long term
solution to the problem, the President and Board of Trustees chose to secure Lake
Michigan water as its future potable water source, and received a Lake water allocation
from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. In order to construct the storage and
distribution system to implement the lake water plan, rights of way and pumping station
sites must be acquired. All properties to be acquired are vacant, adjacent to existing
roadways or existing prescriptive easements. No person or place will be relocated or
displaced. Construction of the storage and distribution system is contemplated for the
spring of 2004.