Organization • | Illinois Environmental Protection Agency | [X] |
| | | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2018 June | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | This report documents the analysis and findings of stage 1 of the TMDL development for water segments within this watershed. Water quality data are gathered by the IEPA, the US Geological Survey, and the USEPA. Illinois is required to identify water bodies that do not meet water quality standards and to determine the Total Maximum Daily Load for pollutants causing the impairment. | | | Date Created: | 06-06-2018 | | | Agency ID: | IEPA/BOW/18-003 | | | ISL ID: | 000000068431 Original UID: 187905 FIRST WORD: Galena/Sinsinawa | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 4 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | Press Release: Illinois Partners for Clean Air today announced the launch of the Safe at Home contest to encourage residents to learn more about air quality. Through the interactive air quality quiz, residents are asked questions to determine if they know some of the ways to keep their families safe from air pollution. The contest kicks off today, Monday, May 4 and runs through Sunday, August 2. | | | Date Created: | 05-04-2015 | | | Agency ID: | 462**15 | | | ISL ID: | 000000071367 Original UID: 189341 FIRST WORD: Safe | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | During the week of June 8, 2009, the Illinois Environmental Protections Agencys Office of Site Evaluation conducted a soil and groundwater investigation in Crestwood, Illinois (see Attachment 1). The investigation included a portion of the Playfield Plaza Shopping Center and the area near the Abandoned Crestwood Well #1. Within the Playfield Plaza Shopping Center is a dry cleaning facility and a possible underground storage tank. | | | Date Created: | 06 25 2009 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000040193 Original UID: 20421 FIRST WORD: Sampling | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 1966 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | The Sanitary Water Board (SWB) was created out of the need to control, prevent, and abate pollution of the streams, lakes, ponds, and other surface and underground waters in the State of Illinois. The Board was authorized to adopt, modify or repeal, and promulgate standards of quality of the waters of the State under such conditions as the Board may prescribe for the prevention, control and abatement of pollution. The Pollution Control Board has since replaced the SWB. | | | Date Created: | 07-09-2018 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000068449 Original UID: 187926 FIRST WORD: Sanitary | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 September 19 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | This fact sheet provides an update to the vinyl chloride contamination in Sauk Villager's water wells used for the community water supply. | | | Date Created: | 09-17-2014 | | | Agency ID: | Fact sheet #4 | | | ISL ID: | 000000052198 Original UID: 173367 FIRST WORD: Sauk | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | A summary of information contained in the Toxic Chemical Report Forms for the calendar year. The Toxic Release Inventory reporting program is required under the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. Covers toxic chemicals with significant human health effects, i.e. which are known or probable human carcinogens, teratogens, fetal toxicants and/or reproductive toxicants. Includes Total Releases and Number of Reporting Facilities For Each County in Illinois. | | | Date Created: | 11 09 2005 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000015833 Original UID: 8621 FIRST WORD: Seventeenth | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | Shell is performing environmental investigations and remedial efforts for a benzene release area and other petroleum hydrocarbons discovered during investigations of that release at and near the ConocoPhillips Wood River Refinery in Roxana. These efforts are being overseen by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. | | | Date Created: | 06 27 2011 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041365 Original UID: 21224 FIRST WORD: [Shell | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 May 1 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | As part of Earth Month and Air Quality Awareness Week, Illinois Partners for Clean Air (Illinois PFCA) is pleased to announce that Christian Surtz of Marmion Academy in Aurora has been chosen as the winner of the Shoot for the Skies PSA Video Contest. The creative environmental education contest challenged Chicago area students to write, direct and produce their own Public Service Announcement (PSA) video utilizing their talent, creativity and inspiration to educate the general public about Chicago area air quality and actions to improve it. | | | Date Created: | 05-01-2014 | | | Agency ID: | 496**14 | | | ISL ID: | 000000053125 Original UID: 174377 FIRST WORD: Shoot | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | [2012] | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | This fact sheet gives helpful suggestions on maintaining a healthy septic system to save money and keep water supplies clean. | | | Date Created: | 06-18-2012 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000061722 Original UID: 181771 FIRST WORD: Simple | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | A summary of information contained in the Toxic Chemical Report Forms for the calendar year. The Toxics Release Inventory reporting program is required under the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. Covers toxic chemicals with significant human health effects, i.e. which are known or probable human carcinogens, teratogens, fetal toxicants and/or reproductive toxicants. Includes Total Releases and Number of Reporting Facilities For Each County in Illinois. | | | Date Created: | 01 20 2005 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000015829 Original UID: 8617 FIRST WORD: Sixteenth | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2003 January | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | Springfield is home to a solar-powered convenience store owned and operated by the BP Corporation, one of over 300 BP retail sites worldwide that have been built or retrofitted with solar panels. But, it's not the only place in Springfield that has incorporated solar power. This program provides interviews with state and local agencies regarding the use of solar power within the Capital city, and the financial assistance that is available to encourage using renewable energy sources. 12:47 | | | Date Created: | 03 01 2012 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000040437 Original UID: 20556 FIRST WORD: Solar | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2001 February | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | The Illinois EPA uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to accurately locate specific areas on a site that may not easily be distinguished by reference points to determine areas that are in need of testing for contamination. Learn about the use of GPS in the remediation of six sites in the Chicago area, and hear from field staffers and Agency director Tom Skinner. 7:06 | | | Date Created: | 03 08 2012 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000040493 Original UID: 20666 FIRST WORD: Southeast | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | This decision document contains the selected remedial actions for the Southeast Rockford Superfund Site, developed in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and to the extent practicable, the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP). This decision is based upon the contents of the administrative record for the Southeast Rockford Superfund Site. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Region V supports the selected remedy on the Southeast Rockford Site. | | | Date Created: | 04 09 2003 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000040199 Original UID: 20424 FIRST WORD: Southeast | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 10 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | Living Lands and Waters (LLandW), an East Moline, Illinois non-profit environmental organization needs volunteers to help prepare trees for a massive giveaway this April. LLandW is planning to distribute 100,000 free oak tree saplings in April as part of LLandW's Million Trees Project. The goal of the project is to improve the health of rivers in the Midwest, by re-establishing hardwoods that have been depleted by over-harvesting, flooding and disease. | | | Date Created: | 03 10 2011 | | | Agency ID: | 261**11 | | | ISL ID: | 000000034863 Original UID: 16337 FIRST WORD: Springfield | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 October 13 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | The state and federal environmental agencies will be visiting the site of the May 2010 warehouse fire in Greenup. The former shoe factory was located at Illinois and South Kentucky Streets and covers approximately two-thirds of a city block. | | | Date Created: | 10 13 2010 | | | Agency ID: | 1258**10 | | | ISL ID: | 000000031873 Original UID: 14881 FIRST WORD: State | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 December 27 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | The discovery of the toxic metal mercury in several skin lightening creams sold in the Chicago area has prompted state environmental officials to warn area retailers not to sell skin products if the product is not labeled, or to take special precautions when dealing with imported cosmetics that use unfamiliar names for mercury. | | | Date Created: | 12 27 2010 | | | Agency ID: | 1625**10 | | | ISL ID: | 000000034176 Original UID: 15709 FIRST WORD: State | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 September | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | Grants issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under section 319 of the Clean Water Act include a condition requiring the submittal of a status report every six months. Nonpoint source pollution is the diffuse, intermittent runoff of pollutants from various sources. Major sources that contribute to Illinois' nonpoint source pollution problems are agriculture, construction erosion, urban runoff, hydrologic modifications, and resource extraction activities. | | | Date Created: | 09-02-2014 | | | Agency ID: | | | | ISL ID: | 000000052197 Original UID: 173366 FIRST WORD: State | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 September 4 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | September is National Preparedness Month and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck is reminding all Illinoisans to use this month to make a plan and prepare for natural disasters and emergencies. | | | Date Created: | 09 04 2012 | | | Agency ID: | 980**12 | | | ISL ID: | 000000044865 Original UID: 24342 FIRST WORD: State | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 March 27 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | Press Release: Under the direction of Governor Quinn, the Illinois EPA is working with U.S. EPA to ensure that a recent crude oil release into Lake Michigan from the BP Whiting Refinery does not harm this precious water resource used for drinking, recreation and fishing. | | | Date Created: | 03-27-2014 | | | Agency ID: | 335**14 | | | ISL ID: | 000000058894 Original UID: 180102 FIRST WORD: Statement | |
| | Title: | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 June 24 | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | Description: | In the wake of last weekends flooding of the Jacksonville drinking water treatment plant, which resulted in the city's inability to provide safe drinking water, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Division of Public Water Supplies has been working closely, on a daily basis, with city officials and treatment plant operators to carry out the necessary steps to restore service. | | | Date Created: | 06 24 2011 | | | Agency ID: | 744**11 | | | ISL ID: | 000000036502 Original UID: 17631 FIRST WORD: Steps | |
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