Natural resources conservation areas --Illinois --Calumet
Calumet (Ill.)
Geographic Coverage
Illinois
Abstract
The Calumet area encompasses approximately 184.3 square miles (117,961 acres) in southern Cook County and in a very small fraction of Will County. Waterways in the area include the Calumet-Sag Channel, Little Calumet River, Calumet River, Midlothian Creek, Tinley Creek, Lake Calumet, and WolfLake. The watershed is part of the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Region and has been extensively developed for urban and industrial use. Nonetheless, significant natural community diversity remains in the area in the form of pockets of environmentally important high quality habitats. It is around this core area of high quality ecological resources that the Lake Calumet Ecosystem Partnership was formed.
This assessment is comprised of four volumes. In Volume 1, Geology discusses the geology, soils, and minerals in the assessment area. Volume 2, Water Resources, discusses the surface and groundwater resources and Volume 3, Living Resources, describes the natural vegetation communities and the fauna of the region. Volume 4 contains three parts: Part I, Socio-Economic Profile, discusses the demographics, infrastructure, and economy of the area; Part II, Environmental Quality, discusses air and water quality, and hazardous and toxic waste generation and management in the area; and Part Ill, Archaeological Resources, identifies and assesses the archaeological sites known in the area.
Publisher
Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources
Series/Report Name or Number
Critical Trends Assessment Program
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/13877
Copyright and License Information
These documents are a product of the Illinois state scientific surveys
and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, and has been selected
and made available by the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are intended solely for
noncommercial research and educational use, and proper attribution is
requested.
Detailed assessments of 32 major watersheds in Illinois, conducted through the Critical Trends Assessment Program administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Includes contributions from each of the State Scientific Surveys which are now part of the Prairie Research Institute.
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