Prairie Rivers Network opposed unnecessary pollution Prairie Rivers Network applauds the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s September 2, 2011 decision to protect clean water by denying Traditions Dairy’s request to fill in headwaters of a stream in rural Jo Daviess County in order to build a manure pond. Traditions Dairy, a proposed 5,500-head dairy, would be […]
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Army Corps Strategy Puts Great Lakes at Risk
Prairie Rivers Network board member Clark Bullard has written op-eds for the Detroit Free Press and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dr. Bullard characterizes the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers to deal with the threat of Asian carp as “playing biological Russian roulette with the Great Lakes.” From the Detroit Free Press, published July […]
Bag It: Plastics in the Environment
Guest Blog Post by Dr. Walt Kelly, Groundwater Geochemist Read Walt’s Blog: Water Quality, Focus on Illinois The award winning documentary Bag It will be shown at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign on Tuesday, September 20, 2011, at 7 PM. I have seen the film and highly recommend it. It starts out as a critical […]
A Needed Plan to Protect the Wabash River
Flowing for over 500 miles from its west-central Ohio headwaters to its confluence with the Ohio River in southern Illinois, the Wabash River is the largest un-dammed river east of the Rocky Mountains. For those living along the Wabash, planning to protect and enhance the river’s future has become a necessary priority. Earlier this summer, […]
Victory for Chicago River!
New state rules finally require water to be clean enough for safe boating, fishing, and swimming It’s been a long process, but the work and wait was worth it for the growing number of people who are using Chicago Area Waterways such as the Chicago River for boating, fishing and swimming. On August 18th, the […]
