Haymarket Park

It shall be unlawful to construct, maintain, or use within the limits of the city a water well for domestic use; provided, that a water well for domestic use existing immediately prior to the effective date of this chapter may be continued although such use does not conform to the provisions hereof. Such well shall comply with the other provisions of this chapter and with the regulations, standards, and ordinances adopted by the City Council. The use of private wells within the limits of the city for domestic purposes shall be permitted only when the city’s water distribution system is not available to the premises on which water is required. Whenever the Health Director shall find from a bacteriological test that the water from any well or cistern within the limits of the city used for domestic purposes is impure, contaminated, and unfit for drinking purposes and will introduce or spread contagious, infectious, or malignant diseases within the city, it shall be the Health Director’s duty to serve or cause to be served on the owner, tenants, or lessee of the property on which such well or cistern is located a notice in writing that such water shall no longer be used for drinking or domestic purposes, and the owner, tenant, or lessee of the property on which such well or cistern, the water in which is found to be impure, contaminated, and unfit for drinking purposes, is located shall within forty-eight hours from the time of service of such notice close up and destroy said well or cistern.

Take notice of the area of concern as identified in the attached diagram indication a zone where buried underground metals were located and encapsulated in-situ as part of the approved development of the site commencing in the year 1999, subject to institutional controls to restrict human contact, including this notice to be filed of record on the property with the Register of Deeds Office, Lancaster County Nebraska, in accordance with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality approved RAP.