Addison Creek Restoration

Project Overview


Transforming a degraded urban waterway into a wildlife oasis.

  • Phase II Engineering
  • Phase III Engineering
  • Environmental Resources
  • Permitting

This ACEC-award-winning project significantly improved water quality by restoring a highly eroded shoreline, improved fish movement by eliminating two low-flow dams and lowered the floodplain within the project area. The Addison Creek River Conservancy District, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, City of Northlake and CBBEL worked together to create a diverse flood plain with emergent wetlands buffered by native prairie. More than 3,000 linear feet of Addison Creek was restored and roughly 2.5 acres of additional wetlands were created. 

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