Chicago Shoreline Report – Request For Comments
April 26, 2023
UPDATED April 26th
Reminder from Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
You still have time to provide comments and feedback to help make our Lake Michigan shoreline safer and more resilient to damage.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently conducting a study on Lake Michigan shoreline erosion and storm damage in your community. Their goal is to determine the best long-term solutions to protect important infrastructure along the shoreline, and we need your help. It is critical that the Army Corps hears directly from this community about your concerns and ideas.
The ongoing study is called the “Chicago Shoreline General Reevaluation – a Coastal Storm Risk Management study in the City of Chicago, Cook County Illinois.” The purpose of the study is to review shoreline erosion coastal storm damage, and to identify potential solutions. Information on the project can be found on the project webpage (available here).
The Public Comment period runs until Sunday, April 30, 2023, and you can email your comments during this period directly to chicagoshoreline@usace.army.mil.
You can also provide feedback by using a new crowdsourcing tool created by the Army Corps (available here).
The crowdsourcing tool has three comment types (Concerns, New Idea/Opportunity for Improvement, Questions). You can place points on the map at specific locations, mark the comment type, and describe the comment. Additionally, previous comments submitted can be seen, ‘liked’, and commented on in place of creating a new separate comment.
Below is some guidance for comments and examples that can be captured through the tool:
Concerns
- Coastal Issues (i.e. flooding, wave overtopping, erosion, etc.) at specific locations
- Impacts to Resources (i.e. project impacts to biological resources, coastal damages to resources)
New Idea/Opportunity for Improvement
- Ideas for coastal, flooding, erosion solutions
- Opportunities to improve habitat, flood areas, erosion controls etc.
Questions
- Pertaining to scope of the study, process, etc.
I hope that you will take the time to visit the project website and either email your comments to the Army Corps or utilize the crowdsourcing tool.
If you have questions, please contact my District Director, Leslie Combs. She can be reached at leslie.combs@mail.house.gov or 773-506-7100.
ORIGINAL POST
Shared by our friends from ASCO:
US Army Corps of Engineers is asking for input for the Chicago Shoreline General Reevaluation Report (GRR)
Deadline Sunday, April 30, 2023
Please send email attention Samantha Belcik of the Army Corps at chicagoshoreline@usace.army.mil.
Comments will be accepted though the end of April. Army Corp is asking for input. This is the first time for this study that they are asking, and there will be more times.This is about lake levels, shoreline erosion, storm damage, damage to buildings, etc. Respond with your comments about the problems, what you would like to be seen done, any ideas.
It is important to make our voices heard.
FROM ALDERMAN OSTERMAN’S WEEKLY MARCH 31, 2023
The US Army Corps of Engineers has extended the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) scoping period for the Chicago Shoreline General Reevaluation Report (GRR) until April 30, 2023. They will continue studying shoreline erosion and storm damage and determine recommended measures to lower the risk of coastal storms along the Lake Michigan Shoreline. Please provide your comments and learn more about the project here.
FROM THE U.S ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
CONCERNING THE CHICAGO SHORELINE GENERAL REVALUATION
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District would like to share a crowdsourcing tool to aid in the information gathering for the Chicago Shoreline General Reevaluation – a Coastal Storm Risk Management study in the City of Chicago, Cook County Illinois.
The purpose of this tool is to gather input from the public for the coastal storm risk management study. The crowdsourcing tool has three comment types (Concerns, New Idea/Opportunity for Improvement, Questions). You can place points on the map at specific locations, mark the comment type, and describe the comment. Additionally, previous comments submitted can be seen, ‘liked’, and commented on in place of creating a new separate comment.
Below is some guidance for comments and examples that can be captured through the tool:
- Concerns
- Coastal Issues (i.e. flooding, wave overtopping, erosion, etc.) at specific locations
- Impacts to Resources (i.e. project impacts to biological resources, coastal damages to resources)
- New idea/Opportunity for improvement
- Ideas for coastal , flooding, erosion solutions
- Opportunities to improve habitat, flood areas, erosion controls etc.
- Questions
- Pertaining to scope of the study, process, etc.
The direct link to the crowdsourcing tool can be found here:
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