Thursday, April 23, 2009
Petition to IL DNR re Plan to Close Fox River Locks Monday and Tuesdays, Etc.
PETITION
We, the undersigned, hereby petition the McHenry County Board and the Fox Waterway Agency to join with us to protest the recent actions of the STATE OF ILLINOIS, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES whereby the locks maintained on the Fox River, at the William G. Stratton/Thomas A. Bolger Lock & Dam will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, commencing May 1, 2009 and other operating hours reduced during the 2009 summer boating season.The closure of the locks will have a substantial negative effect on many businesses adjacent to the Fox River which depend upon summer boat traffic for a substantial part of their annual income.
The reduction in gross income of those businesses will result in a substantial loss of general sales tax revenues to McHenry County, the municipalities affected and the State of Illinois.
The closure of the locks will greatly affect the recreational activities offered by the Fox River to thousands of boating enthusiasts.
NAME, then ADDRESS, then CITY, then COUNTY
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PLEASE RETURN NOT LATER THAN MONDAY, MAY 4, 2004 to Jim Bishop, 550 Woodstock Street, Crystal Lake, IL 60014
Labels: Chain of Lakes, Dam, Fox River, Locks
