Ratt Creek Project Benefits

The Ratt Creek Restoration Project is located on public land, beginning at Jaycee Field and extending to the High Hill Dam. The primary goals of the project is to:

• Stabilize eroded streambanks
• Install riffles (shallow places where the stream can flow quickly past rocks)
• Re-establish the floodplain areas
• Remove invasive trees and shrubs within the natural area corridor
• Install native vegetation and pollinator habitat within the corridor and along approximately 3,000 linear feet of Ratt Creek

These improvements will provide Algonquin and the natural environment the following benefits:

• Improve water quality by reducing the amount of soil erosion and sediment pollution
• Lessen stormwater run off through infiltration by native plants
• Create more biodiversity in the plant and animal community
• Establish pollinator habitat
• Reduce and improve downstream flooding