View NE at RR at E end of heaps showing construction equipment in use.
Encroachment
Views N to RR at W end of heaps.
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Encroachment
View SE at RR at W end of heaps. Silt fence foreground.
Heaps encroaching on two corners of wetland area.
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Encroachment
Views W at RR at W end of heaps show higher quality federal wetlands in the
background. Buffers zones 100 ft wide are supposed to protect wetlands in Lake
County.
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Encroachment
Views E at W end of heaps.
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Wetlands Already Lost
Pond E of Baker center. Once a wetland?
Converting its wetland headwaters to ponds will damage the quality of the
adjacent N Branch of the Chicago River.
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Damaged, Isolated Wetlands
View W at 176 and Bradley. Farmed wetlands were used to store gravel, likely in
violation of the Clean Water Act.
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Damaged, Isolated Wetlands
View N at 176 and Bradley. Farmed wetlands were used to store gravel, likely in
violation of the Clean Water Act.
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Open Space
This 35 acre property will be difficult to develop without violating the
wetlands on it, but if the WDO is enforced, that will probably be allowed in
exchange for mitigation of more wetland acres elsewhere in the watershed. The
village should also tally the loss of open space.
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