225 ILCS 720/3.14: Roads and Ditches.

(a) The construction, maintenance, and postmining conditions of roads into and across the site of mining operations shall control or prevent erosion and siltation, pollution of water, damage to fish or wildlife or their habitat, or public or private property.

(b) Construction of roads or other access ways shall not be permitted up a stream bed or drainage channel or in such proximity to such channel so as to seriously alter the normal flow of water.

(c) All abandoned roads and all mine drainage ditches shall be removed and graded, except where the Department determines that a road or ditch is consistent with and necessary to the reclamation plan.