St. Charles Park District Nature News – May 29 Boy, talk about a time warp. Last week’s headlines about people dumping chemicals into the Fox River read like something out of the 1960s, when the idea of watershed health was still in its infancy. The Clean Water Act had yet to be passed, and waterways
Runoff, Storm Drain, Water
Be careful what you wish for. That’s the phrase that came to mind this week as I watched and read the news reports of the rain and resulting floods that hit the Chicago area Wednesday night into Thursday. Viaducts were underwater, roads were closed; a few basements got a good soaking too. Yet, only a
Flood, Rain, Runoff, Water