Shoreline Changes
The best time of the day and the best time of the year to visit this beach. Definitely no crowds at all!
Way back when my kids were wee little ones we'd be here more often. Sometimes the beach would be closed so that truckloads of sand (I think dredged from Waukegan Harbor but I'm not totally sure on this) could be dumped here to fill in the eroding shoreline. Because of the prevailing currents, this sand would most likely end up somewhere to the south (Waukegan Harbor???) again over the next few years. Not the best solution.
The fact that this many acres of undeveloped semi-natural lakeshore survives in the Chicago-Milwaukee megalopolis makes it a special place. So, over the past couple of years steps were taken with new research to try something different. If you are interested, this explains how it came about:
dnr.illinois.gov/press-release.25902.html
Also, this is an awesomely detailed presentation about lakeshore erosion at IBSP:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/23ae66b26b9a4c3daa1757a69308...
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Shoreline Changes
The best time of the day and the best time of the year to visit this beach. Definitely no crowds at all!
Way back when my kids were wee little ones we'd be here more often. Sometimes the beach would be closed so that truckloads of sand (I think dredged from Waukegan Harbor but I'm not totally sure on this) could be dumped here to fill in the eroding shoreline. Because of the prevailing currents, this sand would most likely end up somewhere to the south (Waukegan Harbor???) again over the next few years. Not the best solution.
The fact that this many acres of undeveloped semi-natural lakeshore survives in the Chicago-Milwaukee megalopolis makes it a special place. So, over the past couple of years steps were taken with new research to try something different. If you are interested, this explains how it came about:
dnr.illinois.gov/press-release.25902.html
Also, this is an awesomely detailed presentation about lakeshore erosion at IBSP:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/23ae66b26b9a4c3daa1757a69308...
Have a wonderful Wednesday!