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Lake Michigan Diversion at Chicago Sparks Public Debate
Citizens split along shorelines over raising the Lake Michigan water diversion at Chicago with landowners near the Great Lakes favoring it for erosion relief while Illinois Waterway residents fear flooding. The Corps notes legal history, public workshops, and environmental steps including an environmental assessment and potential impact statement, with possible diversion start between spring 1979 and fall 1979.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Great Lakes
Illinois Waterway
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Congress
Corps
Illinois-Michigan
Mississippi
Sanitary and Ship Canal
Wisconsin
U.S. Supreme Court
State of
Illinois
Metropolitan Sanitary District
Greater
Michigan
Peoria
la Grange
Milwaukee
Downstate
Joliet
Beardstown
Grafton
East Peoria
Farm Bureau
Sierra Club
Audubon Socity