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By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com
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Holiday Hills homeowner Kris Drexler moves belongings from her home on South Riverdale Road to her car Sunday afternoon. Drexler was hoping to stay in her home overnight to watch her sump pumps. Other neighbors had already left their home. To view more photos, visit NWHerald.com.
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More than a year since a law went into effect banning disposal of electronics at state landfills, the calls still come in. Residents wonder why the TV or computer they’ve left out on the curb wasn’t picked up by the trashman. “The customer will realize that we didn’t pick it up, so they’ll give our office a call,” said Mike Buss, customer service supervisor for MDC Environmental Services, which collects waste in several McHenry County municipalities. “We’ll instruct them on how to dispose of it properly.” Close to 39 million pounds of electronics were recycled in the first year of the ban, under the state’s electronic products recycling and reuse act. In addition to placing responsibility on consumers to recycle their electronics, the
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By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com HOLIDAY HILLS – Water levels crept higher Sunday and caused more problems for area residents despite predictions that the levels would crest early Sunday morning. Flooding of Griswold Lake and the Fox River forced some residents to evacuate and had many others frantically stacking sandbags to minimize the damage. Nestled between the two bodies of water and home to channels that snake between residential streets, Holiday Hills has been hit hard. Holiday Drive is completely submerged, and water has spilled onto other roadways and into yards. “The last two hours that I’ve been out now, the water has come higher on that road,” said Holiday Hills resident Val Valentino, pointing toward water flooding from a channel onto a dip in the road at about 2:30 p.m. “It’s going to be a massive clean up.” Municipalities that have been impacted by the flood will meet Monday to prepare a preliminary damage assessment to send to the state. As in Holiday Hills, the water level on the Fox River in McHenry climbed throughout the day Sunday. As of 3 p.m., the river was at 7.39 feet, according to the National Weather Service. A level of 7 feet is considered a major flood. Sunday’s level broke the previous record of 7.2 feet.
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Cathy Angarola fills a bucket with river water that seeped under sandbags protecting her Willow Road home in Algonquin. Angarola was working to keep the new carpet in the sun room dry. But McHenry Fire Protection District Capt. Kevin Shay said the department didn’t take any high water-related calls. Water spilled over the river walk outside McHenry Villa, but Maintenance Manager Don Weber wasn’t expecting the level to threaten the building. “All of our residents are okay,” Weber
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UNION – The Illinois Railway Museum has started plans to build a 5-acre renewable solar farm that would dramatically reduce the museum’s electrical costs and completely power its demonstration railroad through sunlight. If completed, the 850,000-kilowatt solar project would become one of the largest solar farms in the state, museum officials said. It would include more than 3,000 solar panels, generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity per hour a year. But officials are seeking
Interested in donating to the Illinois Railway Museum and its solar farm project? Contact the museum at 815-923-4391 or email Max Tyms at mtyms@irm. org.
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