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| Plan tackles Barrington's Flint Creek watershed | |
| Nov 29, 2007 | |
| Chad Brooks, Staff Reporter cbrooks@dailyherald.com | |
| Daily Herald | |
| Pertains to Flint Creek, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Lake Barrington, North Barrington | |
| After a year of work, officials with the Flint Creek Watershed Partnership unveiled a plan Wednesday designed to improve water quality, protect natural resources and reduce flooding in the Barrington area. The Flint Creek Watershed Plan outlines specific ways the watershed can be preserved and enhanced over the years to come. "This plan is hopefully a blueprint for the future of our area," said Patsy Mortimer, coordinator of the partnership, which includes representation from the Barrington Area Council of Governments, Barrington Area Development Council and 12 local municipalities. A watershed is an area of land that drains into a stream, river or lake. The Flint Creek watershed covers 36.5 square miles in parts of Lake, Cook and McHenry counties. Steve Zimmerman of Applied Ecological Services said the goals when developing the plan were to educate the community, while also improving water quality, reducing flooding and preserving natural resources. "It is a plan for improving the quality and function of the watershed," Zimmerman said. Without the plan, officials said the community is in danger of losing its open space, seeing increased storm water runoff and flooding and having an increased amount of pollution in the water. In the plan, Zimmerman said specific areas of concern have been identified, which need to be addressed through a number of initiatives, including the restoration of streams, lake shorelines and wetland sites. "The plan is very long and very complex," Zimmerman said of the more than 300-page document. The plan also addresses ways to avoid area flooding residents have been experiencing. "Our action plan addresses how to deal with one of these sites specifically," Zimmerman said of the 19 identified flood problem areas. By developing the plan, Mortimer said the projects included in it will now be available for federal and state money to help pay for them. "It is easier to get grant money for projects that are included in the plan," Mortimer said. The entire watershed plan will be available to view on the partnership's new Web site, which is being launched later this week at www.flintcreekwatershed.org. |
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