(70 ILCS 2605/20) (from Ch. 42, par. 341)
Sec. 20.
Any channel or outlet constructed under the provisions of this act
which shall cause the discharge of sewage into or through any river or
stream of water beyond or without the limits of the district constructing
the same shall be of sufficient size and capacity to produce a continuous
flow of water of at least two hundred cubic feet per minute for each one
thousand of the population of the district drained thereby, and the same
shall be kept and maintained of such size and in such condition that the
water thereof shall be neither offensive or injurious to the health of any
of the people of this state; and before any sewage shall be discharged into
such channel or outlet, all garbage, dead animals and parts thereof, and
other solids shall be taken therefrom, and said district shall, at the time
any sewage is turned into or through any such channel or channels, turn
into said channel or channels not less than twenty thousand cubic feet of
water per minute for every one hundred thousand inhabitants of said
district, and shall thereafter maintain the flow of such quantity of water.
(Source: Laws 1895, p. 168.)
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