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Lake Decatur is a 2,800-acre (11 km 2) reservoir located in the city of Decatur, Illinois, USA, east of downtown. The city and lake both share the name of U.S. Navy Commodore Stephen Decatur . The lake is 613 feet (187 m) above sea level and has a watershed of 925 square miles (2,400 km 2 ) or 592,000 acres (240,000 ha) reaching into parts of ...
Staley needed the lake to supply of 19 million gallons of water a day. Staley threatened to close his plant and move it to Peoria, Illinois if the Decatur City Council refused to allow the construction of the artificial lake. The City Council allowed the company to go forward with the project, and construction began in 1922.
The Macon County Conservation District (MCCD) is a public park authority, created in 1966, serving the metropolitan area of Decatur in the U.S. state of Illinois.The conservation district operates five conservation areas and six historic sites, as of 2022, throughout Macon County. [1]
The Sangamon River in Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. The Sangamon is impounded in Decatur to form Lake Decatur, constructed in 1920–1922 to provide a water supply for Decatur. This lake, formed by damming the main stem of the river, with no control over upstream land uses, has had major problems with siltation and agricultural pollution.
Decatur (/ d ɪ ˈ k eɪ t ər / dih-KAY-tər) is the largest city in and the county seat of Macon County, Illinois, United States. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. [4] It is the seventeenth-most populous city in ...
Just beyond 19th Street, US 36 turns to the southeast on a four-lane divided alignment paralleling a railroad, exiting Decatur on the southeast side. The road crosses Lake Decatur and narrows to two lanes before turning due east. After turning east, U.S. 36 runs largely in a straight line, mostly through open country, until it exits the state.
The Sand Creek Conservation Area is a 755-acre (3 km 2) natural area in the U.S. state of Illinois, located in South Wheatland Township south of Lake Decatur.The conservation area preserves tallgrass prairie and prairie-savanna acreage and serves the people of Macon County and the Decatur metropolitan area.
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