Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago - File #: 14-1429

• File #: 14-1429
• Version: 1
• Type: Agenda Item
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/25/2014
• In control: Real Estate Development Committee
• On agenda: 12/4/2014
• Final action: 12/4/2014
• Title: Authority to issue a one (1) year permit to Peoples Gas on the District’s 95th Street Pumping Station Site to perform an environmental site investigation. Consideration shall be $10.00

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/4/2014	1	Board of Commissioners	Approved	Pass
12/4/2014	1	Committee of the Whole	Recommended	Pass

TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF DECEMBER 4, 2014

COMMITTEE ON REAL ESTATE

Mr. David St. Pierre, Executive Director

Title

Authority to issue a one (1) year permit to Peoples Gas on the District's 95^th Street Pumping Station Site to perform an environmental site investigation.  Consideration shall be $10.00

Body

Dear Sir:

Peoples Gas is remediating its property at Baltimore Avenue and 96^th Street, adjacent to the District's 95^th Street Pumping Station at Baltimore Avenue and 95^th Street in Chicago ("Pumping Station Site"). The Peoples Gas site is a former Manufactured Gas Plant ("MGP") site that operated from 1885 to 1936.  Peoples Gas has indicated that, as part of its remediation, it will be installing sheet piling inside its property line.  Peoples Gas has requested a permit to temporarily relocate its current fence 5 feet onto the Pumping Station Site for approximately 6 months.  A companion Board letter seeking authority to issue a permit to Peoples Gas for this purpose is on today's agenda.

Peoples Gas has offered to perform an environmental site investigation on the Pumping Station Site to further determine the nature and extent of contamination thereon due to off-site migration from its MGP site.  A nominal fee of $10.00 is, therefore, recommended.

The District's technical departments have reviewed Peoples Gas' proposal to perform environmental testing and have no objections thereto.

It is requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and approve the issuance of a one (1) year permit to Peoples Gas on the District's 95^th Street Pumping Station Site to perform an environmental site investigation.  Consideration shall be $10.00.

It is also requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and direct the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and the Clerk to execute said permit agreement on behalf of the District after it is approved by the General Counsel as to form and legality.

Requested, Ronald M. Hill, General Counsel, RMH:STM:ss

Recommended, David St. Pierre, Executive Director

Respectfully Submitted, Mariyana T. Spyropoulos, Chairman Committee on Real Estate Development

Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Regular Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for December 4, 2014

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