Sen. Chapin Rose
Filed: 4/28/2021
 
 

 

 

 
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1
AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2663 




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2663 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
4    "Section 5. The Public Water District Act is amended  by 
5adding Section 28.2 as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 3705/28.2 new)
7    Sec. 28.2. Sangamon Valley Public Water District 
8annexation. 
9    (a) The General Assembly finds:
10        (1) Due to a natural gas leak in December 2016, 
11    multiple water wells connected to the Mahomet Aquifer, one 
12    of the largest sources of water in the State of Illinois, 
13    were contaminated with methane, so much so, that numerous 
14    homeowners are without potable water.
15        (2) The issue of methane contamination of the State of 
16    Illinois' water supply has become a statewide issue and 
 
 
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1    resulted in the Illinois Attorney General having 
2    litigation pending over the contamination.  On December 21, 
3    2018, the Mahomet Aquifer Task Force issued their report 
4    specifically addressing this incident and future incidents 
5    and stressed the need to provide State government, 
6    legislative, and monetary relief so immediate remediation 
7    may begin.
8        (3) The area residents have been without safe water 
9    service for 4 years.
10        (4) The cost of expanding infrastructure to the area 
11    is estimated around $10,000,000.  The Sangamon Valley 
12    Public Water District is not a taxing body, but rather 
13    operates on fees for provided water service and to 
14    initiate construction would require an initial sum of 
15    $3,800,000.
16        (5) In June 2020, in recognition of this Illinois 
17    water-source crisis, the General Assembly passed, and the 
18    Governor signed a Capital Bill appropriating $3,800,000 
19    required for initiation of the plan to bring water to this 
20    area of the State.
21        (6) An addition to funding, the affected area needs to 
22    be annexed into a water district territory for such 
23    district to be able to lawfully expend funds to benefit 
24    the territory and the current statutory annexation 
25    procedure is insufficient to address the crisis and does 
26    not provide for nor contemplate an expedited procedure in 
 
 
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1    the event of water contamination.
2    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on the 
3effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General 
4Assembly, the following property is annexed into the territory 
5of the Sangamon Valley Public Water District: 
6    SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
7    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
8    SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
9    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
10    SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
11    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING EAST OF THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY 
12    LINE OF ILLINOIS ROUTE 47; 
13    SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
14    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING EAST OF THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY 
15    LINE OF ILLINOIS ROUTE 47 AND LYING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 
16    74; 
17    SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
18    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
19    SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
20    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
21    SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
22    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 74; 
23    SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
24    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 74; 
25    SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
26    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 74; 
 
 
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1    SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
2    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 74; 
3    WEST HALF OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF 
4    THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
5    SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
6    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
7    SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
8    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
9    WEST HALF OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF 
10    THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
11    WEST HALF OF SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF 
12    THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
13    SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
14    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
15    SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
16    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 74; 
17    WEST HALF OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF 
18    THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 
19    74; 
20    SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
21    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
22    SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
23    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
24    SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
25    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
26    SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
 
 
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1    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
2    SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
3    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
4    SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
5    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
6    SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
7    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
8    SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
9    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
10    SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
11    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
12    SECTION 21, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
13    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
14    SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
15    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
16    SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
17    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
18    SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
19    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
20    SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
21    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
22    SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
23    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
24    SECTION 27, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
25    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
26    SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
 
 
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1    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
2    SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
3    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
4    NORTH HALF OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST 
5    OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
6    NORTH HALF OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST 
7    OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
8    SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
9    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, EXCEPT THAT PART OF THE SOUTH HALF 
10    LYING WEST OF THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF ILLINOIS ROUTE 
11    47; 
12    SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
13    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
14    SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD 
15    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
16    SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
17    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
18    SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
19    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
20    SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
21    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
22    SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
23    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
24    SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
25    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
26    SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
 
 
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1    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
2    SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
3    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
4    SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD 
5    PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; 
6    ALL IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 
 

7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
8becoming law.".