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The Rantoul-Chanute Regionalization Of Wastewater Treatment: Small Town Interest Group Success, Francis G. Mcloughlin

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In the pages to follow I intend to show how the Village of Rantoul made a killing in the federal funds market. What did the village do? It entered into a joint venture with Chanute Air Force Base to build and operate a regional wastewater treatment plant.This regioinalization saved village residents millions of dollars while the Air Force, assured of money for their own on-base plant from the Department of Defense, had nothing to lose and public support to gain.In the end, both the village and Chanute Air Force Base have their regional wastewater treatment facility. The self-interest of both …