The agency, which includes restoring environmental quality among its goals, says it needs space to process sediment dredged from channels and lake bottoms on the Chain ‘O Lakes and Fox River and it wants to partner with the forest district to use 40 to 60 acres.
They may share similar missions, but the Lake County Forest Preserve District wants to tread carefully in any potential agreement with the Fox Waterway Agency involving dredged materials. The agency, which includes restoring environmental quality among its goals, says it needs space to process sediment dredged from channels and lake bottoms on the Chain ‘O Lakes and Fox River and it wants to partner with the forest district to use 40 to 60 acres.