County Watershed Study Delayed by a Year

3-D image of McHenry County

Shortly before the 2008 fall elections, the McHenry County Board approved a contract with the Illinois State Geological Survey for 2½ year study including “geologic mapping for sustainable management and protection of the county’s groundwater resources.”

It was supposed to be finished next December

Tuesday night the county board is scheduled to put off that deadline by a year.

The accompanying memo to Mary McCann, Chairman of the Natural and Environmental Resources Committee, from Water Resources Manager Cassandra McKinney says the Illinois State Water Survey will use the 3-D mapping of “the distribution and character of sand and gravel aquifers in the County as well as insight on their potential for recharge and vulnerability to contamination.”

But, because the aquifers extend beyond the county lines, the State Water Survey wants the overlapping areas mapped first to make the resulting groundwater flow model more accurate.

Hence, the delay of a year.


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County Watershed Study Delayed by a Year — 2 Comments

  1. Gus, Do you mean the King Ken Koelher Station?
    Delay?
    Probably not look at the Resurrection Center that got voted in on well and septic.
    Politics as usual. This is why we need “Term Limits”

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