People Ex Rel. Witte v. Big Creek Drainage District No. 2

PRESIDING JUSTICE KARNS

delivered the opinion of the court:

The People, on the relation of the Director of the Illinois Department of Conservation, brought this suit against Big Creek Drainage District No. 2 to enjoin it from undertaking any activities, other than minor maintenance involving less than $100 in expenditures and two man-hours’ labor, in the Cache River Basin in Pulaski County without notice to the Department of Conservation and hearing pursuant to section 4 — 19 of the Illinois Drainage Code. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 42, par. 4 — 19.) The complaint prayed for both preliminary…