From
Cindy Mendez, Environmental Quality Manager
Title
Resolution supporting a Municipal Setting Designation for a a portion of the Dallas Floodway
Presenter
Jim Cummings, Environmental Services Director
Recommended Action
Resolution supporting the creation of a Municipal Setting Designation for a portion of the Dallas Floodway generally located southeast of the confluence of the Elm Fork and West Fork of the Trinity River near Irving Boulevard extending southeast to the Texas Utilities Right of Way past Corinth Street within the City of Dallas.
Analysis
A state application for a municipal setting designation (MSD), prohibiting the use of groundwater, is being processed for property generally located southeast of the confluence of the Elm Fork and West Fork of the Trinity River near Irving Boulevard extending southeast to the Texas Utilities Right of Way past Corinth Street within the City of Dallas. The MSD process provides a procedure to receive state environmental closure on a property with contaminated shallow groundwater. In this particular situation, low levels of 1,1- dichloroethene, Cis-1,2-Dichloroethene, tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethene, vinyl chloride, and total petroleum hydrocarbons have been detected in the shallow groundwater below the MSD site from off site sources including a historical leaking petroleum storage tank site and a maintenance building that belonged to the North Texas Tollway Authority, a former communications hardware fabrication and production facility, a chemical storage site, along within various commercial and industrial sites. The site consists of approximately 2,900 acres which is primarily vacant floodplain/flood control land and is also used for recreational activities. The MSD will allow the City of Dallas and the Army Corp of Engineers to proceed with levee improvements, park projects, and environmental and ecological water quality improvement projects.
In addition to approval by the Dallas City Coun...
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