Buying a Home in Wonder Lake, Illinois

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Wonder Lake is located in McHenry County

Population: 7,463 Wonder Lake Illinois is located in McHenry County, between Mchenry and Woodstock.

It is easily accessed off of Rt 120, McCullom Lake Rd, Barnard Mill Rd.

After some 60 years of continual and diverse use of the lake, the MPOA felt it was important to assess how water quality is being effected. The primary lake uses include boating, fishing, water-fowl hunting and aesthetics. However, as a result of years of sedimentation originating from the large agricultural and urbal watershed, the lake has become degraded in terms of water quality, navigational access, and excessive bottom feeding rough fish (carp) populations. This degraded condition was characterized as hyper-eutrophic, i.e. large quantities of suspended sediments, algal growth, and turbid water, by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) and the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC) in 1990 through its Lake Water Quality Assessment Program.

Recognizing their responsibility to all property owners with lake rights, the MPOA delegates in 1994, approved by-law changes that mandated the MPOA directors to meet monthly and to become a pro-active force in the management of the lake. In an effort to focus their efforts to manage the lake, the Directors established the following goals:

Promote Subdivison Cooperation

Improve lake Water Quality, (to include the development of a lake renewal/restoration plan)

Promote Cooperation with County, State, & Federal Agencies

Develop Water Safety Programs

Reduce Pesticide Use

As a result of the effort to focus on their responsibilities, the MPOA Directors and Delegates, through the Lake Renewal Committee, began to evaluate the condition of the lake and to assess it's potential for improvement. Originally it was determined to sample, test, and generally study the lake and its watershed to find out:

If we have real problems, not just perceived.

If there are problems, what is causing them, and further.

What can be done to fix any problems.