Illinois Water Supply Planning

Mahomet Aquifer Modeling Update (pdf ~1.4mb) -- Presented by Al Wehrmann, Director, Center for Groundwater Science, at the East Central Illinois Regional Water Supply Planning Committee meeting on November 30, 2007, in Bloomington.

Surface Water Availability in the East Central Illinois Planning Area (pdf ~2.0mb) -- Presented by Vern Knapp, Senior Hydrologist, Center for Watershed Science, at the August 31, 2007 East Central Illinois Regional Water Supply Planning Committee meeting in Tremont, Illinois.

Groundwater Occurence & Movement: An Introductory Discussion with Application to East-Central Illinois (pdf ~4.2mb) -- Presented by Al Wehrmann, Director, Center for Groundwater Science, at the July 27, 2007 East-Central Illinois Regional Water Supply Planning Committee meeting.

Water Supply Planning and Management: Climate Variability and Change (pdf ~1.5mb) -- Presented by Derek Winstanley, Chief, Illinois State Water Survey, on June 29, 2007 at a meeting of the East Central Illinois Regional Water Supply Planning Committee in Decatur, Illinois.

Water Supply Planning and Management: Sustainability (pdf ~225kb) -- Presented by Derek Winstanley, Chief, Illinois State Water Survey, on June 1, 2007 at a meeting of the East Central Illinois Regional Water Supply Planning Committee in Bloomington, Illinois.

What We Know About Regional Water Supply and Demand - Key Issues (pdf ~2.5mb) -- Presentation made on April 27, 2007, at the East Central Illinois Regional Water Supply Planning Committee meeting in Havana, IL by Derek Winstanley, Chief, Illinois State Water Survey.

Water Supply and Demand in Illinois - Mahomet Aquifer Consortium  [view as flash] -- Water Supply and Demand in Illinois. The PowerPoint presentation given by Derek Winstanley, Chief of the Illinois State Water Survey. The presentation was given at the Meeting of the Mahomet Aquifer Consortium in Urbana, February 16, 2007.

Champaign City Council Meeting November 7, 2006: Water Supply and Ethanol -- Review and comment on the October 17 report "Aquifer Evaluation and Competing Use Study" prepared by Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. for the Andersons, Inc. Posted here are the Water Survey's comments prepared by Dr. George Roadcap, P.G. and H. Allen Wehrmann, P.E.

Water 2006 Conference Presentations -- The Illinois Water Resources Center and agencies of the planning committee put on the fifth biennial conference for citizens and groups interested in water resource issues in Illinois. Illinois State Water Survey representatives Derek Winstanley, Chief, and Allen Wehrmann, Director - Center for Groundwater Science, both gave presentations. The conference was held October 3 to 5 at the Holiday Inn, Urbana, Illinois. Topics included Water supply and planning, Data needs for water planning, Challenges facing Lake Michigan water management, Emerging issues in human health and aquatic ecosystems, and more.

Water Supply and Demand in East-Central Illinois: Planning for the Future -- This meeting was a joint study session, open to the public, that was held at the Beckman Institute in Urbana on September 28, 2006. Laurel Prussing, Mayor of Urbana, and Richard Herman, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were in attendance. Presentations were made by Derek Winstanley, Chief, Illinois State Water Survey, Allen Wehrmann, Director, Center for Groundwater Science, Illinois State Water Survey, and Ed Mehnert, Geohydrologist, Illinois State Geological Survey.