Section 303.204  Chicago Area Waterway System and Lower Des Plaines River

The Chicago Area Waterway System and Lower Des Plaines River Waters are designated to protect for incidental contact or non-contact recreational uses (except where designated as non-recreational waters) and commercial activity (including navigation and industrial water supply uses) limited only by the physical condition of these waters and hydrologic modifications to these waters.  These waters are required to meet the secondary contact and indigenous aquatic life standards contained in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 302, Subpart D, but are not required to meet the general use standards or the public and food processing water supply standards of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 302, Subpart B and C. Designated recreational uses for each segment of the Chicago Area Waterway System and Lower Des Plaines River are identified in this Subpart.

(Source:  Amended at 35 Ill. Reg. 15078, effective August 23, 2011)