The Saline Branch, or ''Saline Branch Ditch'', is a
tributary
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of the
Vermilion River in east central
Illinois
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.
It drains a parcel of east-central
Champaign County, including most of the city of
Urbana, Illinois
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and the
University of Illinois
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campus within Urbana.
Extensive engineering work from the late 1800s through the early 1900s, completed in 1908, straightened and ditched the once-wandering creek. It discharges into the
Salt Fork of the Vermilion River; the discharge includes outflow from the Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District. The U.S.
Geographic Names Information System
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(GNIS) states an alternate name for this stream is West Branch Salt Fork.
References
External links
Home Town Locator: Saline Branch Drainage Ditch in Champaign County IL
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