Conservation group questions plan to restore the Salt Fork

A river conservation group has called into question the restoration plan proposed for the Salt Fork River, where more than 100,000 fish died five years ago from an ammonia spill.

In a federal consent decree filed last month in Urbana, the University of Illinois, along with CEDA Inc., the contractor hired by the UI to clean boilers at the Abbott Power Plant, and the Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District, agreed to pay a total of $491,000 – $450,000 of which will fund restoration projects to benefit fish and wildlife of the Saline Branch Drainage Ditch and the Salt Fork of the Vermilion River.

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