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Palatine committee backs groundwater-use ordinances at three former gas-station sites seeking No Further Remediation letters
Summary
The Palatine Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommended June 9 that the council adopt limited groundwater‑use ordinances at three sites with historic retail gasoline use to support owners’ Illinois EPA No Further Remediation requests.
The Palatine Infrastructure and Environment Committee on June 9 recommended three ordinances that would limit groundwater use near properties with a history of retail gasoline operations to support owners’ applications for No Further Remediation letters from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
Staff told the committee the three addresses — 1245 East Dundee Road, 515 West Colfax and 7 North Northwest Highway — have historic petroleum contamination from retail gas use. To obtain Illinois EPA closure letters, property owners requested a limited groundwater‑use ordinance restricting installation of additional wells in the defined areas.
Staff said there are no existing private wells or community wells at the sites and village code does not permit wells for uses such as lawn irrigation; the proposed local ordinances would formalize those restrictions for the specified parcels to aid the Illinois EPA’s review. "This would be exclusively for portable use, so we would prohibit that," the presenter said when clarifying that domestic irrigation wells would not be allowed in the defined areas.
Committee members voted in favor; the recommendations will proceed to the full council as consent agenda items.
The presenter said the village’s existing codes already largely prohibit wells and the ordinances are intended to be the local action the Illinois EPA expects when issuing No Further Remediation determinations for former gas-station properties.
