Flooding may displace family
You name it, Bob and Sharon Schrank have tried it.
They’ve called a microbiologist, a geotechnical engineer and county, state and federal government officials in an effort to stop the water that has been flowing into their basement for the last year. Nothing has worked.
“We can’t get the water to stop,” Sharon said.
Now, they’re worried about losing the home on the shore of Clear Lake that has been in the family for more than 100 years.
Clear Lake in Milton Township has gone up more than 7½ feet in the last year and a half, starting as 2008’s record-setting snowfalls melted and continuing with the historic rainfalls of last summer.
The lake is spring-fed and has no natural outlet, so there’s nowhere for the water to go unless it evaporates.
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Jul 13, 2009 at 10:04 a.m.
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A hydrologist from Madison told me that earthquakes in Illinois last year caused significant changes to local aquifers and that these effects would be permanent unless changed by further seismic activity. The bottom line is that changes to springs will probably last for a hundred years, so we should be prepared to live with them.
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