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Illinois River Basin Restoration (Sec 519, WRDA 2000)

Agenda Summary of HQ Com. 2015 Plan Rest Projects Monitoring Special Studies Next Steps, Tasks. Illinois River Basin Restoration (Sec 519, WRDA 2000). Rock Island District Website: http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil. Chicago. Rock Island. Detroit. St. Louis.

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Illinois River Basin Restoration (Sec 519, WRDA 2000)

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  1. Agenda • Summary of HQ Com. • 2015 Plan • Rest Projects • Monitoring • Special Studies • Next Steps, Tasks Illinois River Basin Restoration (Sec 519, WRDA 2000) Rock Island District Website: http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil

  2. Chicago Rock Island Detroit St. Louis Illinois River Basin RestorationStudy Area & Concept • Sponsor – State of IllinoisState of Indiana & Others ? • Basin 3 States, 30,000 sq. mi. • Restoration Program Concept from EMP & Everglades

  3. Illinois River RestorationComprehensive PlanSchedule • Public Review of Alt. – Dec 03 • Independent Tech Review – April 04 • Corps Policy Review – May – Nov 04 • Responses to HQ Comments/Scheduling AFB * • Public Review Draft Plan – Jan – Mar 05 • Final Comprehensive Plan – Jun 05 • Chief’s Report – Sep 05

  4. Funding FY05 ???

  5. Draft Work Plan 05 • Illinois Ecosystem (GI) • Complete Comp Plan, NEPA, FWS Coord, Public Involvement $180k • Illinois Basin 519 (GI) • Sites (Pekin South, Kankakee, McKee - Gage) $300k • Sediment Gages $60k • Watershed Assessments (In Kind) $180k+

  6. Work Plan 05 • Illinois Basin 519 (CG) - $2.3m available ?? • Pekin Lake - Northern Unit - Draft PCA $ 15k • Pekin Lake - Southern Unit - P&S $335k • Waubonsie – P&S $150k • PCAs & Construction Award – Peoria $ ??k • Not Currently Approved/Included • Monitoring or CIA • Special Studies

  7. HQ Policy Comments • Details on 2015 Plan • Real Estate Issues • Type of Estates • Use of CREP Lands • Willing Land Owners • Delegation of Approvals • Implementation Procedures • Adaptive Management • Justification of System Recommendations • Relationship to Navigation Study

  8. Restoration Alternatives Desired Future Alternative 7 Alternative 6 Ecological Integrity Alternative 5 Alternative 4 Alternative 3 Alternative 2 Alternative 1 No Action Historic Existing Future Time * Not to Scale – Illustrative Purposes only

  9. Evaluation of Benefits

  10. Incremental Cost Analysis Alt. 7 Alt. 5 Alt. 6 Alt. 4

  11. Draft Study Team Recommendation

  12. Peoria Riverfront (Upper Island) - Design Pekin Lake (North) – Design Pekin Lake (South) – Complete Feas, Design Waubonsie Creek – Design McKee Creek – Sediment Gage Kankakee River – On hold Blackberry Creek – On hold Iroquois River – On hold Critical Restoration ProjectStatus

  13. Draft Detailed 2015 Restoration Project Analysis * Additional projects would be added & constructed out through 2015

  14. Spatial framework Mainstem Sub-basin Local Alternative Framework System Goal Project Monitoring Approach

  15. Bed Load Estimation BMP effectiveness Impervious Cover assessment Sediment yield model Ecosystem indicators of system responses Fish habitat use and movements Scalability of ecosystem indices Overwinter habitat use Summarization of existing data Scale influence on slope determination Focused Research/Special Studies

  16. Uncompleted from 2002 Work Plan • Dvlp IRMP/CIA Partial • Dvlp of Sediment Removal Partial • Evaluate Habitat & Benefits Unfunded • Watershed Assessment Tools Partial/White • RMTs & Implementation Tools Minimal • Historic Aerial Photos Part/Server • Conservation Mapping Unfunded • Sediment Surveys and Char. Part/Cores • Digitize Historic Maps Part/Peoria

  17. Uncompleted from 2002 Work Plan • Pekin Lake (Northern) Complete • Pekin Lake (Southern) Complete • Waubonsie Complete • Iroquois River Draft • McKee Creek Gage • Blackberry Creek Scoping • Kankakee Model • New Project Fact Sheets Over Est.

  18. Steering Committee (State/Fed Interagency) Executive Committee Science Advisory Committee (State) System Team (Corps/DNR Tech Teams) Stakeholders Group Upper Illinois Regional Team ILDNR Region 2 Corps - Chicago & Rock Island Middle Illinois Regional Team ILDNR Region 1,3 Corps - Rock Island Kankakee Regional Team – ILDNR Reg. 2&3, Corps - Rock Island & Chicago Lower Illinois Regional Team ILDNR Region 4 Corps - St. Louis Upper Kankakee (IN) Regional Team IN DNR, Corps - Rock Island, Chicago, Detroit Fox River Regional Team WIDNR Corps - Rock Island

  19. Assessment Process Regional Team Proposal System Team Review Exec. Comm. Finalizes & Approves Assess. Areas Selected Fact Sheet Phase 1 Assess. Phase 2 Assess. Feasibility Process (Initiation & Completion) Exec. Comm. Finalizes & Approves Complete Feasibility Report Regional Team Eval. System Team Evaluation Submit Fact Sheet Science Advisory Committee Including NEPA, CERP, and Permits Steering Committee Implementation/Const. Process Regional Team Submits Feas. Report Exec. Comm. Finalizes & Approves Conduct Plans & Specs. & Pre-Project Monitoring Exec. Comm. Finalizes & Approves Implement Project

  20. Post Construction Evaluation Process System Team Evaluation Monitoring Findings Post Project Monitoring Regional Team Modified Future Project Proposals Recommend updates to RMTs Science Advisory Committee Recommend updates to Monitoring Recommend Adaptive Management

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