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Following up on our Blowout Speaker, Art Malm's talk at the Blowout, below are two recent newspaper articles on the subject from Dale Bowman at Sun Times and Brenda Schory at Kane County Chronicle.  Both articles point to some encouraging news.  Hopefully the 20 million allocated by the State in this year's budget for Dam Removal will remain intact.

 

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/4/11/21217411/chicago-rivers-discussion-dam-removals-des-plaines-fox-dupage-chicago-rivers

https://www.kcchronicle.com/2020/04/07/state-funding-steps-up-fox-river-dam-removal-projects/aphr45r/

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Here is link to article on Carpentersville Dam removal update from Rafael Guerrero of Elgin Courier News:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/ct-ecn-carpentersville-dam-fox-river-st-0415-20200414-ykg4xfur3be4fhwowowpf3sk44-story.html

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Attached is link to article from Suzanne Baker of Naperville Sun on Retrofit of Fawell Dam on DuPage River to help fish swim upstream, the article mentions the Hammel Woods Dam in Shorewood is slated for removal in 2021.

https://digitaledition.napersun.chicagotribune.com/html5/mobile/production/default.aspx?pubid=f4f07333-3b9b-4f20-9475-b439d74dfc58&edid=7e0d5365-a73e-4141-87c2-35d488c97c2f

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Looks like North Aurora dam on the Fox will be coming down soon..  If Montgomery dam is also removed there would be unobstructed float from Batavia to Yorkville.  Thanks for sending me the article Mark Lutz.

 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-north-aurora-dam-st-0608-20200608-w72kimalargo5h7db5s6cowg4q-story.html

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Some good news to report.  Dam removal projects in Illinois are moving forward.  See attached article from Chicago Tribune:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-illinois-dam-removals-20201013-jtcb2h3hpfhkhfgugacsw64lcu-story.html

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On 4/18/2020 at 2:15 PM, Bart Durham said:

Attached is link to article from Suzanne Baker of Naperville Sun on Retrofit of Fawell Dam on DuPage River to help fish swim upstream, the article mentions the Hammel Woods Dam in Shorewood is slated for removal in 2021.

https://digitaledition.napersun.chicagotribune.com/html5/mobile/production/default.aspx?pubid=f4f07333-3b9b-4f20-9475-b439d74dfc58&edid=7e0d5365-a73e-4141-87c2-35d488c97c2f

Good that’s a particularly dangerous one.... more so because of peoples stupidity but nonetheless. 

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