Raingarden Update
by Andy Hay
Time passes slowly in our Federal Government. While we have made great progress and our Tower Lakes Rain Garden Project has definitely been selected by the IL EPA as one of the supported projects, as yet the funds have not been made available by the Federal Government to support the award. So, in a nutshell, we are on hold. All of the pre-work has been done. Thanks to both the Village Board and the Board of TLIA, we are as ready as we can be.
In the meantime, all of the recorded hours of community activity has led to us being already able to match the non-cash portion of the original Lake County Grant of $10,000 and more. This bodes well that we, as a community, will be able to meet our commitments to match the Federal Grant when we receive it.
I wish I had more to give you on this project but the wheels are turning slowly, more so than prior years and definitely slower than we had expected.
Should the grant be awarded before the July 4th Celebrations occur, we will send out an email blast and have information available on the island. In the meantime, we are effectively “On hold.”
I appreciate everyone’s support and would ask our community, keep the faith, that this will come eventually. We will have plenty of time to complete the project when it does.