(225 ILCS 720/3.14) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7903.14)
Sec. 3.14.
Roads and Ditches.
(a) The construction, maintenance, and postmining
conditions of roads into and across the site of mining operations shall
control or prevent erosion and siltation, pollution of water, damage to
fish or wildlife or their habitat, or public or private property.
(b) Construction of roads or other access ways shall not be permitted
up a stream bed or drainage channel or in such proximity to such channel
so as to seriously alter the normal flow of water.
(c) All abandoned roads and all mine drainage ditches shall be removed
and graded, except where the Department determines that a road or ditch
is consistent with and necessary to the reclamation plan.
(Source: P.A. 81-1015.)
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