December Lake Committee Report

/December Lake Committee Report

by Steve BurgoonSteve burgoon

 

FANTASTIC NEWS!! The Village of Tower Lakes and Tower Lakes Improvement Association have been awarded a $12,000 grant to assist in the remediation of the eroded pit at Lathan’s Landing.  The grant was awarded on December 11 at the Lake County Stormwater Management Commission’s Watershed Management Board meeting.  The annual meeting awards over $100,000 annually to Homeowner Associations (HOAs) and municipalities in the county to correct and improve stormwater issues ie. flooding, wetland restoration, detention basin remediation, etc.

 

 

This grant, coupled with funding from the Village and TLIA, as well as community volunteer labor will help us complete a plan to remove invasive buckthorn, dead and decayed tree/material, install a new storm sewer, and fill the depression with silt from our first two phases of the Silt Removal Project.  Re-landscaping with native wetland plants and other grasses will complete the project.

 

 

The Village is contributing funding form their stormwater program, TLIA is contributing funding from the Silt program (re-landscaping), the community will provide volunteers as needed and the Barrington Area Conservation Trust will assist with education and wetland plant identification.

 

 

Most important is that this is the first of, hopefully, many projects wherein in the Village of TL and TLIA will collaboratively identify Best Management Practice (BMP) projects to develop and implement land and water-based solutions for watershed challenges affecting our lakes. These projects, big and small, short term and long term, will help us improve overall lake water quality by preventing and eliminating pollutant loads in our Lakes.

2018-12-21T06:24:34-06:00
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