Items tagged: IEPA

Household Hazardous Waste Event Update

This year’s Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA)-sponsored One-Day Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event in Champaign County is still to be determined.  The IEPA has not secured a contractor at this time, so no 2024 event dates have been set.  They were hoping to host an event in April; however, it does not look like that […]


Hazardous Material Release – Sixth Street

The Urbana Fire Department responded to the 200 block of South Gregory St., Monday, April 15, 2019, at 2:43 p.m., to what appeared to be a petroleum base sheen in the Boneyard Creek. Fire crews deployed absorbent booms across the Boneyard Creek to contain the spill and notified the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA). The […]