(70 ILCS 3715/26) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 249)
Sec. 26.
With respect to territory outside its corporate limits which is
not held by it for reservoir purposes but which territory is within the
watershed that feeds a reservoir of the authority, the authority may, by
ordinance, prevent pollution of waters which feed its reservoir for a
distance of 5 miles upstream from the headwaters of its reservoir and may
abate any cause of pollution within that area as a nuisance.
(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1599.)
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