Ask your State Senator and Representative to cosponsor
Legislation to protect the Mahomet Aquifer!
The Mahomet Aquifer provides fresh water to nearly 1 million people in Illinois and tens of thousands of rural homes across 14 counties. The EPA’s designation of the Mahomet Aquifer as a sole source aquifer underscores its irreplaceable importance. But today, it is threatened by four carbon capture and sequestration projects that, if approved by the U.S. EPA, could be underway next summer.

ADM's recent monitoring well leaks demonstrates the importance of protecting this aquifer from contamination that could release heavy metals that cause cancer, liver damage, and anemia. Although Public Act 103-0651 requires water contaminated by CO2 pollution to be replaced, there is no reasonably available alternative drinking water source for the Mahomet, a designated sole-source Aquifer.

Use this form to ask your State Senator and Representative to cosponsor legislation that will be introduced by Senator Faraci and Representative Ammons in the next few weeks. Their bill will protect the Mahomet Aquifer, its recharge areas, and any future sole-source aquifer in Illinois from health-harming pollution that could be released from CO2 stored beneath the aquifer.