Salt Fork and Copper Slough at risk in sale of water to Cronus; Prairie Rivers Network calls on UCSD to answer key questions about water sale contract

The Urbana Champaign Sanitary District (UCSD) is seeking to sell water to Cronus Chemical for use in a proposed fertilizer plant. Under the agreement, the equivalent of 6.3 million gallons of effluent per day would be piped to Tuscola and no longer discharged to the Saline Branch or the Copper Slough. The District is taking [...]