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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 ...
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.
The number of Illinois bridges in poor condition has increased over the last four years and a quarter of the state’s water lines are tainted by lead, according to the latest infrastructure ...
The EPA has always done its water quality testing at the supplier. Now, it will test at the distribution point." [89] In the July/August 2009 issue of Illinois Issues, [91] author Bethany Jaeger reports that "because village officials reported that the well served only as an emergency backup, it wasn't required to be tested. And the state ...
The State of Illinois created a drainage commission for the Chicago area in 1852 to deal with a potentially contaminated city water supply. [2] The commission made the master drainage plan in 1856. The master drainage plan was centered around raising the city by 3m and constructing new sewers that drained into the river and not the lake.
Drinking water quality in the United States is generally safe. In 2016, over 90 percent of the nation's community water systems were in compliance with all published U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) standards. [1] Over 286 million Americans get their tap water from a community water system.
Wildfires also may be affecting water quality in some of the region’s most pristine lakes, according to a study published in August by researchers at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Illinois has seen a 10-20% increase in annual precipitation over historical averages in the last 100 years. This precipitation increase is happening most in the Fall. [ 5 ] Additionally, there has been a 40% increase in the number of days with precipitation of 2 inches (5 cm) or more.