Another attempt to stave off nature’s fury will begin this spring along a portion of Lake Michigan.
It may well be the largest capital project in the history of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.Plans announced earlier this month, according to Gavin Good’s page-one story in The News-Sun, call for 250,000 tons of rocks and other material to be dumped over more than 12 acres of Illinois Beach shoreline to form underwater reefs. An additional 430,000 cubic yards of sand also will be in the mix to stabilize the beaches.
Taking on the unrelenting waves and saving the park’s beaches is an admirable goal. Yet, Illinois Beach, one of the most-visited state parks, seems to need a face-lift. There are long-standing ecological problems: Industrial pollution in harbors — which Waukegan is quite familiar with — to invasive species such as zebra and quagga mussels, along with loss of wetlands and other wildlife habitat. Toss in climate change — charging stations for electric watercraft which certainly are coming to move marinas to carbon-neutral planning — and saving infrastructure, or just maintaining the status quo along Lake Michigan, will require mega bucks.
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