Bill Text: IL HR0116 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to classify the Mahomet Aquifer as a Sole Source Aquifer in order protect the residents of east-central Illinois and ensure they have clean drinking water for future generations.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Tabled [HR0116 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0116-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Mahomet Aquifer system is an underground layer | ||||||
| 3 | of water-bearing sand and gravel that fills a wide bedrock | ||||||
| 4 | valley in all or parts of 14 east-central Illinois counties; | ||||||
| 5 | the aquifer system is the source of approximately 53 million | ||||||
| 6 | gallons of water every year for 120 public water systems and | ||||||
| 7 | thousands of rural wells that serve about 500,000 people; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, More than half of the population in east-central | ||||||
| 9 | Illinois relies on the Mahomet Aquifer system as a source of | ||||||
| 10 | their drinking water; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, There are complex pathways between the surface and | ||||||
| 12 | overlying aquifers to the principal aquifer in the eastern | ||||||
| 13 | portion and no confining layer between the surface and the | ||||||
| 14 | principal aquifer in the western portion, making the petitioned | ||||||
| 15 | aquifer vulnerable to contamination; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, The Safe Drinking Water Act gives the United | ||||||
| 17 | States Environmental Protection Agency the authority to | ||||||
| 18 | designate an aquifer as a sole or principal source of drinking | ||||||
| 19 | water for a specified area; this designation allows the | ||||||
| 20 | Environmental Protection Agency to review all federally-funded | ||||||
| 21 | projects within the designated area to ensure they will not | ||||||
| 22 | contaminate the aquifer; therefore, be it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 2 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 3 | urge the United States Environmental Protection Agency to | ||||||
| 4 | classify the Mahomet Aquifer as a Sole Source Aquifer in order | ||||||
| 5 | protect the residents of east-central Illinois and ensure they | ||||||
| 6 | have clean drinking water for future generations; and be it | ||||||
| 7 | further
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| 8 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 9 | presented to United States Environmental Protection Agency | ||||||
| 10 | Region 5 Coordinator William Spaulding, the members of the | ||||||
| 11 | Illinois congressional delegation, and the Governor.
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