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Dam Removal Benefits Schiller Woods

Dam Removal Benefits Schiller Woods

Barbara Piltaver | June 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

On a hot summer afternoon in June of 2012, an excavator rigged with a jack hammer was about to mark a historical moment for the Des Plaines River downstream in Riverside.  For the first time in almost two hundred years, the section of river in Riverside and Lyons returned to a free flowing stream, unimpeded by a […]

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