Addison Creek Restoration
Project Overview
Transforming a degraded urban waterway into a wildlife oasis.
Location
Northlake, IL
Construction Cost
$4.2 million
Fee
$775,000
Client
City of Northlake
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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