Placentas at sewer plant concern health officials

URBANA – Public health officials hope that whoever put placentas in the sanitary sewer system is merely ignorant of rules for their safe disposal.

On Thursday, for the third time in a month, employees at the Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District spotted what was later identified as a placenta, believed to be from a human, in filtering equipment at the plant on East University Avenue in Urbana.

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