RESOLUTION FOR BOARD MEETING OF JANUARY 19, 2017
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RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners commending and supporting the Buffalo Creek Watershed Plan
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WHEREAS, the Buffalo Creek Clean Water Partnership and Buffalo Creek Watershed stakeholders have been working since 2012 to prepare a comprehensive watershed-based plan for the Buffalo Creek Watershed (“Buffalo Creek Watershed Plan”) in Lake County and Cook County, Illinois; and
WHEREAS, the Buffalo Creek Watershed Plan was developed through a series of 13 planning meetings with the cooperative effort of more than 120 persons representing 40 different watershed entities; and
WHEREAS, the Buffalo Creek Watershed Plan was created to identify opportunities for watershed communities to integrate multi-objective watershed management in land use and development activities; and
WHEREAS, the Buffalo Creek Watershed Plan was also created to improve degraded conditions in the watershed by improving water quality, reducing flood damage, and protecting and enhancing natural resources by implementing best management practices and programs to retrofit existing problem areas and prevent future problems from occurring; and
WHEREAS, the Buffalo Creek Watershed Plan will guide the successful implementation of a series of individual site-specific projects and watershed-wide programmatic actions to improve water quality, reduce flood damage potential, and protect and enhance natural resources including the watershed’s lakes, streams, and wetlands; and
WHEREAS, in addition, the Buffalo Creek Watershed Plan will provide watershed education and recreation opportunities and improve community cooperation and participation in watershed improvement activities; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, do hereby commend and support the Buffalo Creek Watershed Plan; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Resolution be spread upon the permanent Record of Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
Dated: January 19, 2017
Approved: MARIYANA T. SPYROPOULOS, President; BARBARA J. MCGOWAN, Vice President; FRANK AVILA, Chairman, Committee on Finance; TIMOTHY BRADFORD; MARTIN J. DURKAN; JOSINA MORITA; DEBRA SHORE; KARI K. STEELE; DAVID J. WALSH; Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
Approved as to Form and Legality: Ronald M. Hill, General Counsel, RMH:LLD:YT:bh