IDNR Begins $3.8 Million in Waterfowl Habitat Improvements

Roth Crossing Wetland Construction - Repair unit to increase proportion of flooded acres.

Horseshoe Lake SFWA (Alexander Co.)

$19,000.00

Water Control Structure Rehabilitation - Replace stoplogs in water control structure to better facilitate wetland management.

Donnelley SFWA

$10,000.00

Doza Creek Pump Station Replacement - Work with the Baldwin Generating Station to use their pump infrastructure to flood the adjacent management unit.

Kaskaskia SFWA

$80,000.00

Bottomland Hardwood Enhancement - Remove undesirable trees from an 80-acre tract to allow desirable tree species to thrive.

Cache River SNA

$10,000.00

Bottomland Hardwood Enhancement - Remove undesirable trees from approximately 10 acres to allow desirable tree species to thrive and create openings for waterfowl and waterfowl hunters.

Mermet Lake SFWA

$10,000.00

Moist-soil wetland units development - Develop three small wetland units totaling 18 acres to replace crops and fallow areas, providing foraging habitat in the refuge area.

Mermet Lake SFWA

$45,900.00

Shallow Water Wetland Development Phase 2 - Continue repairing berms and water control structures on 16 wetlands on this site.

Embarras River Bottoms SHA

$50,000.00

Black Crown Marsh SNA Phragmites control - Control invasive Phragmites on 50 acres of marsh to restore marsh quality and increase habitat area.

Moraine Hills SP

$8,000.00

Jonathan Creek North Wetland Development - Develop a new 20-acre managed shallow water wetland impoundment in the Jonathan Creek Access Area.

Shelbyville SFWA

$119,928.75

Culvert and screw gate replacement - Replace aging infrastructure at various wetland management units throughout the site.

Mississippi River Area SFWA

$60,000.00

Godar Refuge Dike Stabilization - Reshape and armor 3,000 linear feet of dike in the 300-acre refuge to facilitate continued wetland management practices.

Mississippi River Area SFWA

$110,000.00

Salt Creek wetland vegetation control - Control undesirable vegetation in the Salt Creek Management Unit to increase desirable wetland habitat.

Clinton Lake SRA

$21,107.75

Weiner Swale habitat rehabilitation - Mechanically remove undesirable woody vegetation to increase the area of forage-producing wetland vegetation.

Sanganois SFWA

$15,000.00

Subimpoundment Rehabilitation Phase 1 - Begin to rehabilitate the 7,500-acre subimpoundment area; Phase 1 will focus on restoring the function and quality of Speaker Lake Refuge, critical to this important waterfowl hunting site.

Carlyle Lake SFWA

$1,000,000.00

Construction-grade LiDAR and Bathymetry - Obtain high quality elevation data for the entire subimpoundment area to facilitate rehabilitation project design.

Carlyle Lake SFWA

$68,000.00

Kaskaskia River levee repair - Repair 400 feet of critical external levee for the subimpoundment area where the river is eroding it.

Carlyle Lake SFWA

$183,000.00

Dewatering structures/flood gate repair and replacement - Repair or replace failing water control structures that will allow water management control and flood water release from the subimpoundment area.

Carlyle Lake SFWA

$393,000.00

Replace pumps and discharge pipes - Replace four failing pumps and discharge pipes used to manage 5,000 acres of critical waterfowl habitat that is hunted heavily.

Rend Lake SFWA

$1,000,000.00

Compact excavator and trailer - Southern Illinois waterfowl sites total more than 40,000 acres and have numerous berms, levees and water control structures that need maintenance or replacement; this equipment allows IDNR staff to complete many minor repairs in a timely fashion to avoid more costly repairs.

Region 5

$57,000.00

Trash Pump Purchase - Purchase 6" trash pump to facilitate management of a 20-acre waterfowl refuge area.

Horseshoe Lake SP (Madison Co)

$33,500.00

Portable Pump Purchase - Purchase 30" trailer-mounted portable pump to facilitate management of 15 areas (24,000 acres); the site uses several of these pumps, and intermittent replacement will avoid failure.

Mississippi River Area SFWA

$221,150.00

Portable Pump Purchase - Purchase an additional pump to facilitate management of hunted areas.

Clinton Lake SRA

$20,000.00

Tracked Dump Truck - Purchase a spin-and-dump low ground pressure tracked dump truck to access portions of site that cannot be reached by typical equipment; the site rents similar equipment; keeping it on-site will facilitate timely management and repairs.

Sanganois SFWA

$228,500.00

Waterfowl Site Maintenance - One-time emergency use of any remaining funds to complete deferred maintenance at wetland management sites; funds will be managed by IDNR Resource Conservation and Land Management representatives.

Statewide

$100,000.00