Watershed Planning

Grundy, Kendall, and Will

Minooka and Lisbon

Planning Committee: Mary DeVries and Rita Sova

Technical Advisory Committee: Bob Jankowski

• Flooding of bridges, roads, farmland, and residential homes
• Soil erosion and sedimentation
• Man-made and natural obstructions of natural creek flow
• Poorly planned development
• Future construction in the floodplain
• Potential pollution and contamination caused by sewage
• Inadequate stormwater management
• Farmland protection
• Disappearance of wetlands
• Streambank erosion
• Minimal recreation opportunities
• Lack of wildlife and wildlife habitat with effective management
• Future degradation of surface and groundwater quality

• Completed watershed resource plan in Spring 2001.
• Received INIA Class A Stream designation on Aux Sable main stem and Valley Run.
• Awarded $15,000 from IEPA for completing 104b grant planning activities.
• Portion of the watershed was added as a CREP priority area.

During the fall of 1997 and spring of 1998 a subcommittee of the Technical Advisory Committee completed a stream corridor assessment for Aux Sable Creek. Forty-four points representing resource issues were identified and documented on a geographic information system. All forty-four points are described by resource concern and addressed by an alternative conservation practice. As a result approximately sixty-four miles of buffer/filter strips could be established on agriculture fields, in order to reduce stream sedimentation and improve water quality. The planning process resulted in twenty-four objectives established to address the identified resource problems. Further refinement and implementation of these objectives will result in additional projects.