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IL EPA Hands Fish Kill Probe to AG's Office
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois Attorney General's office has taken over the investigation into a September fish kill in a Sangamon River tributary.

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Scott Mulford told The News-Gazette newspaper in Champaign his agency has agreed to hand the case over to Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

About 40,000 fish and other animals died in a spill over nine miles of Lone Tree Creek and a mile of the Sangamon below the point where the creek flows into the river. The location is about 15 miles northwest of Champaign.

The EPA hasn't revealed what was spilled. But the agency indicates the likely pollution source is Stone Ridge Dairy, home to about 3,000 cows.

The EPA contends the dairy doesn't have a permit to discharge into the tributary.

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