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IL SR0451
Resolution
Status
Passed
11/14/2019
Primary Sponsor
Jason Plummer
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AI Summary
- Kaskaskia Watershed covers 10.2% of Illinois across 22 counties, spanning from Champaign County to the Mississippi River in Randolph County
- The watershed's three Army Corps of Engineers projects (Lake Shelbyville, Carlyle Lake, and Kaskaskia Navigation Project) generate 7.4 million visitors annually and over $167.2 million in visitor spending, while serving 557,837 people with public water
- A headcut in the Kaskaskia River is degrading the river at one mile per year, causing increased dredging costs, private property loss, and ecosystem damage including to Illinois's largest contiguous bottomland hardwood forest
- Congress authorized $20 million in federal funding for critical watershed restoration projects through the 2007 Kaskaskia Watershed Restoration Act, contingent on completion of a Comprehensive Plan
- The Army Corps of Engineers funded the Comprehensive Plan with $1.5 million in federal funds in 2014, requiring a 50% non-federal match; the plan is stalled pending $300,000 in state funding needed to leverage the remaining $20 million in federal assistance
- The resolution urges all four legislative caucuses and the Governor to include the Kaskaskia Watershed Comprehensive Plan in the upcoming fiscal year budget
Legislative Description
KASKASKIA WATERSHED PLAN
Last Action
Resolution Adopted
11/14/2019
Committee Referrals
State Government10/28/2019
Assignments5/28/2019
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