People in the Champaign-Urbana area are making their voices heard about the proposed water sale of the Urbana Champaign Sanitary District to Cronus Chemical’s proposed fertilizer plant and Sunrise Coal’s proposed “Bulldog” mine. See Prairie Rivers Network’s website for our response to the Sanitary District’s draft plan for sales of effluent, biosolids or other byproducts. […]
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PRN urges UCSD to adopt policy that protects water supply, promotes stream health
Below find a letter to the trustees of the Urbana Champaign Sanitary District outlining our position on water sales by the district. This letter was precipitated by UCSD’s consideration of water sales to two different proposed facilities – the Cronus fertilizer plant near Tuscola, IL and Sunrise Coal’s “Bulldog” coal mine in Vermilion County, IL. […]
Sustainable Water Use Policy Should Guide Water Sales
UCSD considering water sale to fertilizer plant & coal mine The Urbana Champaign Sanitary District (UCSD) is considering selling large amounts of water from its Urbana and Champaign sewage treatment plants to Cronus Chemical, a company proposing a fertilizer plant near Tuscola in Douglas County, IL. UCSD has also received a request to sell water to Hallador […]
UCSD Public Meeting: Proposed Water Sale to Fertilizer Plant & Coal Mine
Please join us at the public meeting on May 8th at 6:30 pm at the UCSD Urbana plant, 1100 E. University Ave. The Urbana Champaign Sanitary District (UCSD) is considering selling large amounts of water from its Urbana and Savoy sewage treatment plants to Cronus Chemical, a company proposing a $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in […]
Historic Leap Forward for Chicago River
Yesterday, eight members of a powerful board in Chicago promised to change business as usual and vote to disinfect billions of gallons of sewage that’s dumped into Chicago waters every day. After more than a decade of resisting public demands, eight of nine commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) publicly […]
