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IMC035
LILY LAKE
- Location:
- Nunda Township (T44N,R9E) Section 5
- McHenry Township (T45N,R9E) Sections 31,32
Size: 120 acres (est)
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Glacial kettle lake (B)
- Rare Plants:
- Potamogeton gramineus/Grass-leaved pondweed (E)
- Potamogeton robbinsii/Fern pondweed (E)
- Rare Animals:
- none
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
Management Problems:
- Siltation
- Highway run-off
- Shoreline modification (development)
- Other forms of urban pollution (nutrients from fertilized lawns)
- Dredging
- Use of herbicides for aquatic vegetation control
- Eurasian water milfoil
- Possible past use of rotenone
