MAHOMET, Ill. (WCIA) -- The farmland in one Champaign County city is getting healthier, but not everyone is happy about it.

In Mahomet, the Sangamon Valley Water Protection District is pumping wastewater into fields. However, they're having to run pipes through the Thornewood Subdivision and it comes with an odor.

The chairman of the Sangamon Valley Public Water District, Cameron Wygant, said that this process is not harmful to the people in the neighborhood and they're not pumping raw sewage. Rather, it's a biosolid, which was once sewage that has been through the whole treatment process.

Wygant added that the biosolids have been fully approved by the Illinois EPA to be pumped. However, to get from point a to point b, they're having to use a temporary pipeline system that runs through

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