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Anthony Drive Pond Shoreline Restoration Expansion and 2020 - 2022 Stewardship - (PM20-07)
History
In 2011, the Village established the Basin and Best Practices Management report. The report contains bids and evaluations on Village ponds and areas that require stewardship to ensure proper functionality and aesthetics of said areas. Since the completion of the report, the Village has worked with V3 Companies and Pizzo & Associates, who were the companies that were awarded basin and restoration work.
On August 1, 2016, the Village Board of Trustees awarded the "Native Landscape Stewardship 2017, 2018 and 2019 for Anthony, Legend and Tallgrass Ponds" to V3 Companies. At that time, approximately 75% of the perimeter of the Anthony Pond shoreline was stabilized and a native buffer established, leaving 250' of the shoreline without a vegetative buffer between adjacent lawns and the pond. The Stabilized/restored portion of the Anthony Pond shoreline has performed well under the stewardship of V3 Companies since that time.
Residents whose homes abut Anthony Pond began reaching out to the Village in 2018 regarding the condition of the pond's water quality, which has suffered from frequent severe algae blooms and pondweed growth. A major contributor to algae and pondweed growth is pollutant and fertilizer runoff from nearby lawns, which is why vegetative buffers are so important to the overall health of a pond ecosystem. As algae and pondweed growth at Anthony Pond has been a persistent problem, despite efforts by the Village's aquatic weed control contractor, it was decided that the completion of the restoration of the remaining 250' of exposed shoreline was in the best interest of the Village and the resident who abut the pond. As V3's stewardship contract for the pond was set to expire at the end of 2019, proposals from both Pizzo and V3 were requested for the shoreline stabilization and buffer establishment for the remaining 250' of open shoreline as well as...
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