Issues with unsafe drinking water from Aqua Illinois have now expanded to University Park, Illinois, as Governors State ...

University Park's mayor said he is making an effort to buy the water rights back. But he admitted it could cost millions of ...

But because the Illinois State Water Survey has not conducted risk assessments for these remaining communities, should they stay on the aquifer, concerns remain. These towns would rely on ...

S.B. 1723 provides what many lawmakers viewed as key protections for the Mahomet Aquifer in central Illinois, which supplies drinking water to nearly a million people in 14 counties. It comes a ...

Construction officially began Monday on a 60-mile transmission pipeline that will bring Lake Michigan water to a half-dozen ...

The aquifer lies beneath 16 counties, primarily in East Central Illinois, and the water that flows into it could be contaminated by human action above or below it. The carbon dioxide seepage ...

Joliet, Illinois, about 30 miles from Lake Michigan, draws its water from an aquifer deep underground ... which draws from Lake Michigan. A map from 1935 shows a proposal to build a pipeline ...

SPRINGFIELD — In 2021, Illinois lawmakers unanimously passed and Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation creating the Mahomet Aquifer Council. The idea was to have a standing body to review ...

The Mahomet Aquifer is a source of drinking water for many communities in Central Illinois. New Poet Laureate The new Illinois Poet Laureate is an author, lecturer and writer-in-residence at ...

include an exemption for the sole source aquifer that provides water to most of the western part of the state. During the debate over the initial regulations, central Illinois lawmakers shared ...

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