1. Illinois River Basin Restoration (Sec 519, WRDA 2000) Rock Island District Website: http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil Agenda Summary of HQ Com. 2015 Plan Rest Projects Monitoring Special Studies Next Steps, Tasks

2. Illinois River Basin Restoration Study Area & Concept Sponsor – State of Illinois State of Indiana & Others ? Basin 3 States, 30,000 sq. mi. Restoration Program Concept from EMP & Everglades Detroit Chicago St. Louis Rock Island

3. Illinois River Restoration Comprehensive Plan Schedule –Public Review of Alt. – Dec 03 –Independent Tech Review– April 04 –Corps Policy Review– May – Nov 04 –Responses to HQ Comments/Scheduling AFB * –Public Review Draft Plan – Jan – Mar 05 –Final Comprehensive Plan – Jun 05 –Chief’s Report– Sep 05

4. Funding FY05 ??? FY05 Funding IL River Eco (GI) $180 IL River Basin (GI) $360 IL River Basin (CG) $2,300**

5. Draft Work Plan 05 Illinois Ecosystem (GI) –Complete Comp Plan, NEPA, FWS Coord, Public Involvement $180k Illinois Basin 519 (GI) –Sites (Pekin South, Kankakee, McKee - Gage) $300k –Sediment Gages $60k –Watershed Assessments (In Kind) $180k+

6. Work Plan 05 Illinois Basin 519 (CG) - $2.3m available ?? –Pekin Lake - Northern Unit - Draft PCA $ 15k –Pekin Lake - Southern Unit - P&S $335k –Waubonsie – P&S$150k –PCAs & Construction Award – Peoria $ ??k Not Currently Approved/Included –Monitoring or CIA –Special Studies

7. HQ Policy Comments Details on 2015 Plan Real Estate Issues –Type of Estates –Use of CREP Lands –Willing Land Owners Delegation of Approvals Implementation Procedures Adaptive Management Justification of System Recommendations Relationship to Navigation Study

8. Time ExistingHistoric Restoration Alternatives Desired Future No Action Alternative 2 Alternative 6 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alternative 7 Alternative 1 Alternative 5 * Not to Scale – Illustrative Purposes only Future Ecological Integrity

9. Effectiveness No ActionAlt 1Alt 2Alt 3Alt 4Alt 5Alt 6Alt 7 Goal 1 - Sediment Reduction (20% Reduction)0%12%25%50% 100% Goal 2 - Backwaters (19,000 acres)0%19%32%45%32%45%63%95% Goal 2 - Side Channels (number)0%25%50%75%50%75%88%100% Goal 3 - Mainstem Floodplain (150k acres)0%3% 13%3%27%50%100% Goal 3 -Tributary Floodplain (150k acres)0%3%7%13% 27%50%100% Goal 3 - Aquatic Restoration (1k miles)0%3%5%10% 20%50%100% Goal 4 - Fish Passage (miles)0% 23%78% 100% Goal 5 - Water Level - Mainstem (% Reduction 1 foot fluctuations)0% 66% 73% Goal 5 - Water Level - Tributary (% increase in base flow)0% 10% 40% 100% Goal 5 - Water Level - Tributary (% reductions in peak flow)0%7%10% 35% 48%100% Combined Goals (Equal Weighting)0%7%14%32%38%46%63%97% Evaluation of Benefits

10. Incremental Cost Analysis Alt. 4 Alt. 5Alt. 6 Alt. 7

11. Draft Study Team Recommendation

12. Critical Restoration Project Status Peoria Riverfront (Upper Island) - Design Pekin Lake (North) – Design Pekin Lake (South) – Complete Feas, Design Waubonsie Creek – Design McKee Creek – Sediment Gage Kankakee River – On hold Blackberry Creek – On hold Iroquois River – On hold

13. Draft Detailed 2015 Restoration Project Analysis 200 520062007 200 82009 201 020112012201320142015 Peoria2.63.80.9 Pekin N0.022.5 1.3 Pekin S0.352.5 2.6 Waubonsie0.150.021.71.1 Kank State Line 0.250.35 Kank0.40.250.22.5 Iroquois0.25 2.5 Black0.30.25 2.5 McKee0.30.25 2.5 Peoria Tribs0.30.25 2.5 Others 0.90.75 7.5 3.52 10.4 7 10.0 511.5 13.2 5157.5 000 * Additional projects would be added & constructed out through 2015

14. Monitoring Approach Spatial framework –Mainstem –Sub-basin –Local Alternative Framework –System –Goal –Project

16. Focused Research/Special Studies Bed Load Estimation BMP effectiveness Impervious Cover assessment Sediment yield model Ecosystem indicators of system responses Fish habitat use and movements Scalability of ecosystem indices Overwinter habitat use Summarization of existing data Scale influence on slope determination

17. Uncompleted from 2002 Work Plan Dvlp IRMP/CIAPartial Dvlp of Sediment RemovalPartial Evaluate Habitat & Benefits Unfunded Watershed Assessment Tools Partial/White RMTs & Implementation ToolsMinimal Historic Aerial Photos Part/Server Conservation MappingUnfunded Sediment Surveys and Char. Part/Cores Digitize Historic Maps Part/Peoria

18. Uncompleted from 2002 Work Plan Pekin Lake (Northern)Complete Pekin Lake (Southern)Complete WaubonsieComplete Iroquois RiverDraft McKee CreekGage Blackberry CreekScoping KankakeeModel New Project Fact SheetsOver Est.

21. Executive Committee Steering Committee (State/Fed Interagency) Stakeholders Group System Team (Corps/DNR Tech Teams) Upper Illinois Regional Team ILDNR Region 2 Corps - Chicago & Rock Island Middle Illinois Regional Team ILDNR Region 1,3 Corps - Rock Island Kankakee Regional Team – ILDNR Reg. 2&3, Corps - Rock Island & Chicago Lower Illinois Regional Team ILDNR Region 4 Corps - St. Louis Science Advisory Committee (State) Fox River Regional Team WIDNR Corps - Rock Island Upper Kankakee (IN) Regional Team IN DNR, Corps - Rock Island, Chicago, Detroit

22. Assessment Process Assess. Areas Selected Phase 1 Assess. Phase 2 Assess. Submit Fact Sheet Regional Team Eval. System Team Evaluation Exec. Comm. Finalizes & Approves Science Advisory Committee Steering Committee Complete Feasibility Report Regional Team Proposal System Team Review Exec. Comm. Finalizes & Approves Feasibility Process (Initiation & Completion) Implementation/Const. Process Conduct Plans & Specs. & Pre- Project Monitoring Implement Project Regional Team Submits Feas. Report Exec. Comm. Finalizes & Approves Fact Sheet Including NEPA, CERP, and Permits

23. Post Project Monitoring Regional Team Modified Future Project Proposals System Team Evaluation Science Advisory Committee Monitoring Findings Post Construction Evaluation Process Recommend updates to RMTs Recommend updates to Monitoring Recommend Adaptive Management