Village of Bolingbrook v. CITIZENS UTIL. COMPANY OF ILLINOIS

Plaintiff, the Village of Bolingbrook, is a home rule municipality. Defendant, Citizens Utilities Company of Illinois, is an investor-owned Illinois public utility. Defendant furnishes water and sanitary sewage services within plaintiff’s corporate limits.

Plaintiff alleges that on April 9, 1991, and April 15, 1991, there were substantial discharges of raw, untreated sanitary sewage from defendant’s lines. These discharges allegedly deposited raw sewage on various properties located throughout plaintiff’s corporate limits.

Based on the individual sewage discharges, plaintiff filed 20 separate…