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Article: Brewster Creek on its way to recovery Agency OKs grant to monitor progress.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2004
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Byline: Garrett Ordower Daily Herald Staff Writer
If Brewster Creek were a person, there would still be blood everywhere.
Though the operation ended in February, the sloppy banks of the 4.3-acre lake-turned-narrow-stream make it very clear that recovery and treatment continue.
"This is kind of like surgery," said Don Roseboom, a hydrologist with the United States Geological Survey, to about 40 planners and environmental workers touring the Fox River watershed Friday.
To save a dam created in 1929 and the creek that ran into it from "catastrophic failure" four 18-inch sections of it were lopped off over about 9 months.
It has ...