- Pollution Control Board Dismisses Rulemaking To Set E-coli Bacteria Standards
for Lake Michigan Beaches and the Mississippi River
On April 21, 2005, the Illinois Pollution Control Board dismissed a proposal to set
Escherichia coli (E-coli) bacterial water quality standards for Lake Michigan beaches and
portions of the Mississippi River.
- The Board accepted this rulemaking for hearing on December 16,
2004.
- Additionally, the IEPA asserts that the United States Environmental
Protection Agency indicated that it intends to adopt a new bacteria criterion in October
2005, with an indicator organism other than fecal coliform or E-coli, and that continuing
with the rulemaking would not be an e...