Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 3715 Water Authorities Act. Section 26

    (70 ILCS 3715/26) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 249)

    Sec. 26. With respect to territory outside its corporate limits which is not held by it for reservoir purposes but which territory is within the watershed that feeds a reservoir of the authority, the authority may, by ordinance, prevent pollution of waters which feed its reservoir for a distance of 5 miles upstream from the headwaters of its reservoir and may abate any cause of pollution within that area as a nuisance.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1599.)

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