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Division of Project Implementation

--Springfield and Bartlett, IL

Prepares design plans and specifications for water resource construction projects. Acquires needed right-of-way and supervises construction activities. Responsible for operation and maintenance of state managed dams and facilities on waterways throughout the State.

Waters and Facilities

Owned and/or maintained by Office of Water Resources

STATE MANAGED DAMS

	I. Des Plaines River
		a. Hoffman Dam

	II. Fox River
		a. Algonquin
		b. Aurora (East Dam)
		c. Dam 19A - Oswego Dam Site 
			(Transferred to IDOC 1982)
		d. Geneva
		e. W.G. Stratton Dam
		f. Millhurst Dam Site  (Transferred to IDOC 1982)
		g. Montgomery
		h. North Aurora (maintained by Fox River Valley 
			Parkway Division)
		i. South Elgin
		j. Yorkville

	III. Illinois Waterway (Corps of Engineers maintained)
		a. Brandon Road
		b. Dresden
		c. Lockort
		d Marsailles
		e. Starved Rock

	IV. Kinkaid Lake
		a. Dam and Spillway

	V. Kishwaukee River
		a. Belvidere Dam

	VI. Midlothian Creek
		a. Midlothian Lake Dam

	VII. Rock River
		a. Sears Dam
		b. Steel Dam
		c. Sinnissippi Dam

	VIII. Upper Salt Creek
		a. Busse Woods Dams
			1. North Dam
			2. Middle Dam
			3. South Dam

	IX. West Branch DuPage River
		a. Naperville Dam
			1. Saddle Dam
			2. Main Dam.

STATE MANAGED FACILITIES
	Kaskaskia River Bridge Cells
	Edgar Lakes Pump Station
	Havana Maintenance Facility
	Kinkaid Lake Field Station
	W.G. Stratton Lock
	Salt Creek Diversion
	Sears Power House
	Sinnissippi Dam Gates
	Carpentersville Ice Boom
	Dundee Ice Boom

LAKES
	Fox Chain of Lakes
	Lake Michigan
	Peoria Lake
	Public Lakes Lower Illinois River
	Public Lakes Mississippi River

SEAWALLS & LEVEES
	Hoffman Gate & Seawall
	New Athens Levee
	Rock island Armory Seawall 
		(City of Rock Island maintained)

OTHER PROPERTIES
	I. Granite City Road to Dobrey Slough Pump Station 
		(City of Granite maintained)
		
	II. Addison Creek
		a. FR-244, Lake Street Interceptor
		
	III. Chain of Lakes
		a. Boat channel between Petite Lake and Bluff Lake
		
	IV. Chicago River
		a. FR-222 - North Branch
		b. FR-230 - North Branch
		c. FR-246 - North Branch
		d. FR-264 - North Branch
		
	V. Crestwood Drainage
		a. FR-228, Channel Improvement
		b. FR-240, Channel Improvement
		c. FR-255, Channel Improvement

	VI. Dobrey Slough
		a. FR-233, Temporary Pump Station 
			(City of Granite maintained)
			
	VII. Embarass River
		a. FR-196 Channel Improvement
		
	VIII. Horseshoe Lake
		a. FR-227, Low Flow Control Structure
		
	IX. I&M Canal
		a. FR-243, Rockdale, Stages I & II
		b. FR-250, Rockdale, Stages I & II
		
	X. Lake Michigan
		a. FR-345, Breakwater Rehabilitation
		
	XI. McDonald Creek
		a. FR-274, Channel Improvement
		
	XII. Meredosia Bay Earth Dam
	
	XIII. Rock River
		a. FR-267, Channel Improvements
		
	XIV. Salt  Creek
		a. FR-376, Busse Woods Channel 1500 ft. 
		   downstream of Golf Road

 
 

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