UPDATE ON THE LAKES OF LAKE IN THE HILLS

By PRESIDENT CHRISTINA THORNROSE
TRUSTEE JOE MURAWSKI and TRUSTEE RON SLOAN
Village of Lake in the Hills, Illinois

The lakes of Lake in the Hills, Illinois are obviously an important part of our heritage and a valuable asset of our community. We have just completed an engineering study of Lakes 2, 3 and 4 which proposes a cost of $450,000 of improvements of the three lakes. At this writing we are in the second phase of the enhancement program for Lake 1 and will now proceed to the other lakes within the community.

Lake 2 dam improvements were completed in 1989 and this proposed program will dredge the sediment from the lake, improve shoreline protection, provide additional erosion and sedimentation control measures and give our citizens access to the 11 acre lake.

Lakes 3 and 4 are much smaller and are in need of dam repairs, sediment removal and shoreline work that will follow after the completion of Lake 2. These two lakes are immediately downstream and are part of Crystal Creek that discharges into the Fox River. The $450,000 program will provide lakes that have more than 6,000 feet of shoreline and will enhance as well as maintain these lakes of Lake in the Hills. The lake enhancement study by Wight Consulting Engineers, Inc., 127 South Northwest Highway, Barrington, Illinois 60010, is under the jurisdiction of Village President Christina Thornrose and Village Trustees Joe Murawski and Ron Sloan. All three have been active participants in involving the citizens and the government in seeing that the lakes of Lake in the Hills are protected.

Lake in the Hills has successfully protected the four lakes that are the basis for Lake in the Hills. In addition we have several smaller lakes in new developments and intend to protect and utilize these lakes.

You can count on Lake in the Hills to respect its namesake and live up to the beauty of that name. •

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April 1994 / Illinois Municipal Review / Page 19