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. […]
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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 […]
Chicago and Mississippi Rivers Make List of “America’s Most Endangered Rivers”
American Rivers, a national river conservation organization, named both the Chicago and Mississippi Rivers in its 2011 “America’s Most Endangered Rivers” report issued earlier this week. The list “…is a call to action for rivers at a crossroads, whose fates will be determined in the coming year.” For the Chicago River, the report highlights the 1.2 […]