Fox River Ecosystem Partnership

Recipient
 

Title & Description

Grant Amount

McHenry County Conservation District

Nippersink Creek Restoration
This project will provide increased floodwater storage capacity, improve surface water quality, and enhance canoeing and fishing benefits to uses. This project will be located approximately two miles north of Wonder Lake in McHenry County.

$81,100

LaSalle County Soil and Water Conservation District

Rasmusen Natural Area Enhancement
Funds will be used to purchase lumber and hardware needed to construct one bridge, six benches and twenty interpretive trail signs. Brochures and educational material for the site will be developed, printed and distributed to area schools and community organizations. This project will be located approximately one mile northwest of Millington in LaSalle County.

$4,420

Fox River Ecosystem Partnership (FREP)

Marketing the Integrated Management Plan for the Fox River Watershed in Illinois
The multi-staged work plan for the coordinating consultant and FREP includes: enhanced communications with target entities through a quarterly newsletter, distribution of education materials illuminating the Integrated Management Plan, assistance of entities in implementing the Plan recommendations, maintenance of a comprehensive and interactive FREP website, coordination of in-kind hours provided by FREP members to promote and support the Plan in their own communities, and distribution and refinement of the Plan tool kit. This two-year project will be administered in Batavia and will benefit Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Lake, McHenry and Will Counties.

$72,000

St. Charles Park District

Stream Corridor and Channel Restoration
Using rocks, rootwads, and logs, this project proposes to restore a damaged expanse of stream corridor and channel. This project will be located at St. Charles in Kane County.

$8,848

Fox Valley Park District

Native Plant Shoreline Stabilization
Native species that have been identified by IDNR studies that are compatible to urban areas and have the ability to withstand periodic flooding and ice flows that occur along the banks of the Fox River will be reintroduced. This project will be administered in Aurora and will benefit Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Lake, McHenry and Will Counties.

$17,089

Kane County Environmental Management Department

Economic Analysis and Model Ordinance Language Development, Blackberry Creek Watershed
The fundamental goal of this project is to improve water quality and reduce flooding in the Blackberry Creek Watershed, and ultimately in all waters in Northeast Illinois, by modifying future development plans. This project will be located in Blackberry Creek watershed, in southern Kane and northern Kendall counties.

$67,000

Village of Oswego

The Ponds of Fox Chase
The Village of Oswego will construct siltation control and will plant wetland and native prairie plants. This project will be located in Oswego, LaSalle County.

$30,000

Windstone Subdivision Homeowners Association – Lake Committee

Windstone Subdivision Lake Riparian Restoration
Funds will be used to restore the riparian zone of Windstone Lake in order to address poor habitat and water quality from poor land management practices, runoff pollutants, and on-going storm water runoff from drainage systems.  This project will be located approximately two miles northeast of Sugar Grove in Kane County.

$19,396

Fox Valley Land Foundation

Conservation Easement Acquisition/
Helm Woods – Orchid Site
Funds will be used to acquire a conservation easement on a 3.5 acre tract of land adjacent to both Helms Woods Nature Preserve and the Carpentersville White Fringed Orchid site. This project will be located one mile south of Barrington Hills, in Kane County.

$50,496.55

McHenry County Defenders

Ecotourism to Protect Natural Resources
To market ecotourism activities, a brochure, descriptive map and web site will be designed, produced, and distributed to promote recreational and restoration activities which are non-invasive and educational. This project will be administered from Woodstock in McHenry County and will benefit Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.

$20,457

TOTAL

$370,626.55