Illinois Administrative Code
Title 17 - CONSERVATION
Part 3704 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC WATERS
Section 3704.70 - Land Conversions and Fill Material Placement
Universal Citation: 17 IL Admin Code ยง 3704.70
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) Land Conversions
The conversion of public waters to private land by filling is prohibited.
b) Fill Material Placement
Fill material may be placed in public waters only for the following purposes:
1) Bank, shore or
bluff protection;
2) Beach
nourishment;
3) Establishing a
uniform shoreline;
4) Spur dikes,
wing dams, and similar structures;
5) Dams which would be in compliance with the
Department's rules for Construction and Maintenance of Dams, 17 Ill. Adm. Code
3702;
6) Projects of an emergency
nature which the Department determines to be in the public interest and which
otherwise would be in compliance with this Part such as fills needed to prevent
the failure of a structure;
7)
Projects authorized by the General Assembly, to the extent necessary to achieve
the purpose of the fill (such authorizations are only provided to public
agencies to serve public purposes);
8) Filling of a slip pursuant to the
provisions of 615 ILCS 5/18 (such permits are
only granted after public hearing and with the approval of the Governor);
and
9) Open water disposal of
material dredged from a navigation channel. Open water does not include: any
shallows or shorewaters predominantly occupied by submerged or floating aquatic
vegetation regardless of bed material transport; any backwaters, sloughs, back
channels, oxbows, or bays; areas within the depositional influence of dikes,
sills, breakwaters, or other structures where subsequent sediment transport is
largely arrested; or areas where sediment tends to accumulate or from which
sediment may migrate into a backwater.
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