[CPEO-BIF] Sterling, Illinois riverfront

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'It's starting to look like a park': Sterling riverfront project turns a corner

Sauk Valley Media (IL)
October 2, 2015 

STERLING – In September 2013, the city received the largest state green space grant ever awarded in Illinois.

The $1.3 million Illinois Green Space Infrastructure Grant, and a $900,000 award from the state’s Mud to Parks program, jump-started an ecotourism project that is a key component in the city’s riverfront revitalization plans.

Plans for the $2.18 million ecotourism project include a wetland and pond complex to improve water quality, 9 acres of natural landscape restoration, 3,000 square feet of publicly accessible green roofs, and more than 4,500 square feet of grass.

The Mud to Parks money will pay for the transfer of tens of thousands of cubic yards of fill material to cover the Northwestern Steel & Wire brownfield site. Some of the fill will come from a construction project at the Meadowlands industrial park, and a quarry east of town.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.saukvalley.com/2015/10/02/its-starting-to-look-like-a-park-sterling-riverfront-project-turns-a-corner/ak92gxr/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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