HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION - 27-77 - 4/26/1977 - URGE IL ENVIRON PROT AGENCYRESOLUTION NO. 27-77
A RESOLUTION URGING THE ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY TO
CONTINUE TO SERVE THE PUBLIC OF THE STATE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
THROUGH TESTING OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES
WHEREAS, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and its predecessors
have for many years recognized the necessity for the public good to require
periodic routine and occurence generated special microbiological testing of
public water supplies in the State and in recognition and support thereof provided
such testing without charge and continues to be equipped so to do; and
WHEREAS, purportedly because of bugetary limitations the agency has given
notice it will cease such testing activities; and
WHEREAS, many public water supplies, particularly in smaller communities
do not and cannot afford and maintain certifiedlaboratories to do such testing,
nor do they have such laboratories conveniently available to them; and
WHEREAS, if the Agency should be found to suspend its traditional furnishing
of testing services, it will lessen the effectiveness of the testing program, and
will increase the problems of enforcing testing requirements, and will increase the
danger to the public health of latently unsafe public water supplies; and
WHEREAS, such suspension would further cause substantiel increased cost, time
delays and inconvenience to the public in the operation of public water supplies,
particularly in smaller communities throughout the State.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the President and Board of Trustees of the
Village of Elk Grove Village, Counties of Cook and DuPage, State of Illinois:
That the Governor of the State of Illinois, and the Director of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, be, and they are hereby, requested and urged to re-examine
the position of the Agency with a view toward continuing to serve the public of the
State and the public health thereof by continuing to fund and support water supply
safety and the monitoring thereof through continuing the microbiological testing
services of the Agency as it has traditionally been conducted, which continuance
this Board views as necessary to the public health, safety and welfare of the
State.
PASSED this 26th day of April 1 1977,