DECATUR – The Sangamon River supplies water to hundreds of thousands of homes on its 215-mile path through Central Illinois. But despite its essential role, life in Central Illinois has taken a ...

SANGAMON COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — Multiple Sangamon County fire departments and one dive team are on scene for a water rescue situation in a river near I-72. Sangamon Co. jury finds man guilty of ...

The Sangamon River is the largest Illinois River tributary with a length of 240 miles and a watershed encompassing 5,362 square miles. The watershed is separated into three management sections ...

(WAND) - Police said a body of a man who went under in the Sangamon River in the Riverton area Thursday ... Riverton's fire department had a boat in the water after 3 p.m. for what became a ...

RIVERTON -- A body was retrieved from the Sangamon River late Thursday morning after ... so we went on the assumption that he did go into the water from the point where we did recover the items.” ...

"Sangamon" is a Potawatomi word and translates to "where there's plenty to eat." And during the presettlement days, Native Americans who lived along the river feasted there. "The fresh-water ...

The researchers surveyed respondents in the Upper Sangamon River Watershed in Central Illinois, an INLRS priority watershed due to high levels of nitrate and phosphorus transmission. Respondents ...

MONTICELLO– For more than a century, people have used the Sangamon River near Monticello as a dumping ground. Kim Erndt, watershed organizer for the Prairie Rivers Network, says the rolling ...

"Mussel Grubbing" explores the work being done in the upper Sangamon River regarding freshwater ... that opened the United Nations 2023 World Water Conference. More information about the film ...

“We have tons of data to analyze and to understand because the Sangamon River is impacted by agriculture,” Wang said. “So we also want to know how agriculture impacts the chemistry in the river water.