East Side residents received a notice in the mail this week about two City drinking water meetings coming up:
Thursday January 26 @ Goodman Community Center 6:30 PM - To talk about where the City should try to site a new east side drinking water well.
A little background: City drinking water Well 3 used to be at First Street-East Johnson. In 2007 the City shut down Well 3 then permanently abandoned it because of carbon tetrachloride contamination.
Soon after the City shut down Well 3, a citizen committee started to meet to talk about where the City should try to locate a new well to replace Well 3.
Steve Gaffield of Montgomery Associates mapped areas of the east side that are contaminated -- where a well could not be located; it didn't appear there were many potential spots left on the near east side a person could even try to locate a well.
City staff talked about possibly the area around Anderson Street-Wright Street (Truax-MATC-Carpenter-Ridgeway area). The citizen committee stopped meeting. The question was never resolved.
Nothing happened for years. Cut to 2011: Last year a Water Utility East Side Citizen Advisory Panel talked, at much length, about whether the City needs 'a' new well on the east side (leaving aside the question of where, exactly). A majority of the panel ended up deciding Yes, the City does need a new east side well.
So the meeting on January 26 will be the (re)start of an effort to figure out where to drill a new well to serve the east side.
Tuesday January 31 @ Goodman Community Center 6:30 PM - To talk about the City installing Iron-Manganese filters at
Well 7 (Sherman Middle School area) and Well 8 (Olbrich sledding hill).
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