Farmland Industries (Equalizer Midwest Inc Terminal)

The Hastings City Council finds and determines that certain contaminants have, for many years, existed in certain areas of the groundwater in and near the City of Hastings, and that certain legislation is necessary and appropriate for the purpose of supplementing the various measures undertaken by the City of Hastings and others, aimed at reducing or eliminating the possibility that humans will come into contact with such contaminants. It is the intention of the City that existing water wells within the area where contaminated groundwater exists, which area shall be hereafter known as the Hastings Institutional Control Area, shall be allowed to remain in existence only if reasonable safeguards are implemented so that there is no reasonable likelihood of human contact with the contaminants in the groundwater. It is also the intention of the City that no new domestic water wells may be installed within the Hastings Institutional Control Area. Within sixty days after the effective date of this ordinance, all existing water wells within the Hastings Institutional Control Area, other than public water supply wells, shall be registered in the office of the City Board of Public Works or the Hastings Department of Development Services by the owner of the real estate upon which the well is located.