what flows into a sewer treatment plant and what flows out of that plant and pollutes the waters of the state.... Controlling what goes into a sewer system is a practical method of controlling the final effluent. The efficiency, sufficiency, adequacy and capacity of a specified sewer treatment plant are obviously controlled and patently affected by what goes in to such plants. In such manner only, it would seem, can the legislative declaration ... assure that no contaminants are discharged into the waters without being given the degree of treatment or control necessary to prevent pollution. A.E. Staley Mfg. Co. v. EPA, 8 Ill.App.3d 1018, 290 N.E.2d 892, 894-95 (1972). Accord Armstrong Chemcon, Inc. v. The Pollution Control Board, 18 Ill.App.3d 753, 310 N.E.2d 648, 651 (1974) (<HOLDING>) The public policy of our state is similar. See
recognizing the position of the ose that the rio grandes surface waters are fully appropriated and that new surface water appropriations are not allowed recognizing the need for reasonable preservation of the natural environment and allowing minimum stream flow and natural lake surface level and volume appropriations on behalf of the people of the state of colorado for that purpose recognizing that in the absence of a statutory definition statutory terms are construed in accordance with their ordinary or natural meaning holding that waters in utah are of two classes private and public and title to public waters is in the public all are equal owners that is have coequal rights therein holding that sewers were within the statutory definition of waters as being all accumulations of water surface and underground natural and artificial public and private or parts thereof which are wholly or particularly within flow through or border upon the state