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COMMISSIONER LYONS WISHED TO KNOW HOW MUCH THE TEST WELL <br />PROGRAM IS DELAYING THE PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR COMPLETION OF THIS <br />SYSTEM. <br />ENGINEER JOHN ROBBINS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THEY CURRENTLY <br />ARE SHOOTING FOR THE SPRING OF 1982 FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE ENTIRE <br />SYSTEM AS SET OUT IN THE ORIGINAL SCHEDULE PRESENTED; TIME WAS IN- <br />CORPORATED IN THEIR ORIGINAL SCHEDULE TO ALLOW FOR SOME DELAY; AND <br />HE DID NOT FEEL THE OVERALL COMPLETION DATE WOULD BE HAMPERED BY THIS <br />THREE TO FOUR WEEK DELAY IN GETTING THE WATER QUALITY FROM THE TEST <br />PRODUCTION WELL. <br />COMMISSIONER LYONS NOTED THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME CONCERN <br />ABOUT THE USE OF REVERSE OSMOSIS VERSUS LIME TREATMENT IN CONNECTION <br />WITH THE INCREASING COST OF POWER. HE CONTINUED THAT ONE OF THE <br />PROBLEMS WE HAVE FACING US IS THE NUMBER OF POLLUTANTS THAT ARE BEGIN- <br />NING TO SEEP INTO OUR UNDERGROUND WATER STRATA, HE, THEREFORE, HAD <br />ASKED ENGINEER ROBBINS WHETHER THE REVERSE OSMOSIS PLANT WOULD REMOVE <br />MOST OF THE KNOWN POLLUTANTS, INCLUDING SOME OF THE ORGANIC POLLUTANTS <br />THAT HAVE COME IN THROUGH THE LEACHING OF DUMPS, ETC., AND MR. ROBBINS <br />INDICATED THAT THE REVERSE OSMOSIS PROCESS WOULD FILTER OUT THOSE <br />KINDS OF POLLUTANTS AND WOULD PROVIDE US WITH A SAFE, LONG TERM SYSTEM. <br />MR. ROBBINS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED <br />WITH WATER RESOURCES JUST ABOUT ALL OF HIS ENGINEERING CAREER AND NOTED <br />THAT THERE HAS BEEN AN OUTBREAK OF PUBLICITY ASSOCIATED WITH VARIOUS <br />ORGANIC COMPOUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN LINKED TO CANCER. HE EXPLAINED THAT <br />ONE OF THEIR REASONS FOR RECOMMENDING GOING TO THE DEEP AQUIFER IS <br />THAT THE PRODUCTION ZONE IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 600' BELOW GRADE, <br />AND THE CAP CONSISTS OF IMPERMEABLE MATERIAL. THIS WOULD INSURE THAT <br />ANY FORMS OF SURFACE RUN OFF AND LEACHING FIRST WOULD HAVE TO PERCOLATE <br />THROUGH THE SHALLOW AQUIFER AND THEN THROUGH THE IMPERMEABLE ZONE. <br />MR. ROBBINS WENT ON TO EXPLAIN THAT THE REVERSE OSMOSIS PROCESS IT- <br />SELF DEALS WITH FORCING THE WATER MOLECULE THROUGH A SEMIPERMEABLE <br />MEMBRANE, AND ACTUALLY REVERSE OSMOSIS IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY TREATMENT <br />PROCESSES FOR ELIMINATING POLLUTANTS. HE REPORTED THAT HE HAS BEEN <br />73 <br />NOV 51980 <br />v <br />