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(The Center Square) – Legislation to prohibit carbon capture and sequestration activities near a sole-source aquifer supplying drinking water to over 500,000 residents across 14 counties in ...
The MWRD operates the largest water reclamation plant in the United States, the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, Illinois, in addition to six other plants and 23 pumping stations. These seven plants range in capacity from 1.44 billion gallons per day at the Stickney Plant to 4 million gallons per day at the Lemont Plant.
That program also works with private citizens, local governments and landscape companies to reduce the use of salt as a de-icer on roads, parking lots and sidewalks. In 2023, the League introduced Nitrate Watch, a national program to test waterways and drinking water for high levels of nitrate, which is linked to cancer and certain birth defects.
Freeport is a small industrial city of 24,000 in northwest Illinois. For a price tag of $13 million, it's building a new public water system to tap deep into new, uncontaminated water sources.
On January 25, 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community in the United States to fluoridate its drinking water for the intended purpose of helping to prevent tooth decay. Fluoridation became an official policy of the U.S. Public Health Service by 1951, and by 1960 water fluoridation had become widely used in the U.S., reaching ...
Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois, United States, a village in Cook County, was discovered in April 2009 by Tricia Krause, who reached out to local newspapers, which reported that the city had been using a well which was contaminated with toxic chemicals as the village's drinking water for 40 years.
The Illinois Commerce Commission approved a rate hike for Illinois American Water, but slashed the original request by 30% for an overall increase of $110 million. The utility, which services ...
In early US history, drinking water quality in the country was managed by individual drinking water utilities and at the state and local level. In 1914 the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) published a set of drinking water standards, pursuant to existing federal authority to regulate interstate commerce , and in response to the 1893 Interstate ...