If you would like to observe the decision-making processes that affect drinking water quality, please attend a regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council. 129, to arrange to be placed on the agenda of the meeting of the City Council. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally-occurring minerals, salts, metals, and, in some cases, radioactive material.
Water can also pickup substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity.
The source of drinking water used by the City of Grand Island is groundwater from the sand and gravel aquifer that underlies the area. Drinking water is provided by seven wells within the City limits and sixteen wells at the City s well field on an island in the Platte River. A wellhead protection area has been prepared by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. The NDEQ is also developing a formal Source Water Assessment Program at this time. Grand Island has conducted extensive hydrologic studies of the area aquifer.