From the News-Gazette:
Included in the settlement is an agreement that the UI, the sanitary district and CEDA will pay $450,000 to the U.S. for natural resource restoration projects, along with $41,000 for expenses.
Trustees for the settlement are the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of Illinois through the Department of Natural Resources and the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
The restoration projects include rock structures to reduce erosion and create pools, which would benefit aquatic life and improve water quality. The trustees will take comments about designs of rock structures for the Saline Branch, but have not yet decided on projects for the Salt Fork, court records show.
The trustees will prepare a restoration plan for the Salt Fork and will seek ideas from the public in developing that plan.
"We are really happy about that," said Glynnis Collins, a water resource scientist with Prairie Rivers.
