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The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with the cleanup of contaminated groundwater in Grand Island's Parkview Subdivision.
A 90-foot-deep extraction well was being drilled this week at the corner of Park Drive and Commerce Avenue.
“This (well) will be done today,” David Butler, project manager for private contractor Seneca, said on Tuesday. “Three more will be done by the end of the week.”
The three other extraction wells are being drilled along railroad tracks just west of Blaine Street.
All four wells, which pump 2,000 gallons per minute, will feed the contaminated water into a new treatment building.
The $2.5 million project is to remove contamination from industrial solvents.
The contamination was discovered in a city well in 2003 and traced back to a site at the location of the former Heinzman Engineering.
The contamination source has been removed, but the contamination that leached into the groundwater had migrated and is being cleaned as part of this current project.
Butler said Seneca will run the wells for a month before turning them over to the EPA. The cleanup process is expected to begin in April and take about 10 years to complete.
— World-Herald News Service
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