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	USACOE Letter to DeSantis Re Comments This letter voices the concerns of our letters, and asks DeSantis to respond to them.
html txt     html txt	ALERT: Write before June 4 Oppose USACOE Wetlands Destruction Permit Comment Period Ends June 4, 2001 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  Chicago District, Regulatory Branch  Attn: 200001139, Mr. Michael Murphy  111 North Canal Street, 6th floor  Chicago, Illinois 60606-7206 Write to the US Army Corps of Engineers. Use this text (Click the upper flowers for W&W letter, and the lower ones for the IL Chapter letter.)  These ask them to deny the permit. Include any additional comments that you feel apply, and your name and address. Send copies of your letter to these consulting agencies: Stormwater Management Commission 333-B Peterson Road Libertyville, IL  60048 Illinois EPA Division of Water Pollution Control Permit Section #15  1021 N. Grand Avenue East  P.O. Box 19276  Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276 US Fish & Wildlife Service Chicago IL Field Office 1000 Hart Road, Suite 180 Barrington, IL 60010 Fax: 847-381-2285 Godshalk to Lincolnshire Handelsman to USACOE Upper De Plaines River Ecosystem Partnership to USACOE
html   txt	US Fish & Wildlife Service Letter to USACOE Notes adverse impacts to approximately 12.85 acres of wetland, including degraded wetlands, and an area of emergent/sedge meadow remnant in the floodplain of Indian Creek. Alludes to consideration of upland alternative location as required by the Clean Water Act. Objects to wetland mitigation in floodplain, and draws into question possibility of success after excavating 4 feet of present topsoil, even if respread; and considering inundation of floodwaters. Further questions wetlands credits for plan, and questions the need for excavation. Indicates insufficient assurance of replacement of wetland functions or acreage. Precludes the need for consultation in accordance with section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, unless more indications are revealed.
	USACOE Wetlands Destruction Permit Comment Period Notice This notice contains key information about the location and impacts that this proposed development will cause. It also notes several key weaknesses in the application. The drawings are poor. The applicant proposes to mitigate wetlands in the floodplain, and pay a fee in lieu of a large number of acres to mitigated elsewhere.

This parcel is half severely degraded prairie, and half valuable wooded wetlands. It contains a clean flowing tributary of Indian Creek, and the confluence of that tributary with Indian Creek. Here is the relevant portion of the wetlands delineation map. The site consists of the area under the word "VILLAGE."

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