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Ethanol's water demands raise flags; A new plant would use about 2 million gallons of water per day
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Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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June 19, 2006
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CHAMPAIGN (AP) - A red flag went up when city officials in
Champaign and Urbana heard that an ethanol plant proposed nearby
would use about 2 million gallons of water per day, most likely from
the aquifer that also supplies both cities.
"It should raise red flags," said Matt Wempe, a city planner for
Urbana.
The proposal for a 100 million gallon-per-year ethanol plant is
just one of many that have popped up in the past several months
across Illinois, which already has seven operating plants and is the
nation's No. 2 ethanol producer.
High oil prices and support from Washington have inspired such
interest in the corn-based gasoline additive that the Illinois Corn
Growers Association now says ...
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