State authorities have cited an worker with the town’s Department of Water Management over the deaths of dozens of protected birds at a water filtration plant in South Shore. Elmer Payton, an engineer on the Eugene Sawyer Water Purification Plant close to Rainbow Beach, was cited with killing a non-game migratory hen and illegal destruction of nests and eggs of a non-game migratory hen in reference to the June 27 incident, in line with Rachel Torbert, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Torbert stated the company started investigating when a co-worker on the plant reported that Payton had destroyed nests and killed practically 40 cliff swallows and barn swallows. Payton wasn’t arrested