SYCAMORE – Residents, landowners and businesses from Sycamore, Virgil, Cortland, Maple Park, Lily Lake and Burlington are invited to a workshop from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at the DeKalb County Community Foundation, 475 DeKalb Ave. in Sycamore, to gather information about water quality and flooding issues and problems within municipalities of the Union/Virgil Ditches and the East Branch, South Branch Kishwaukee River watershed that will help shape a watershed plan for land use planning and projects.

“Political boundaries, such as those of municipalities and counties, rarely coincide with the natural drainage within a watershed,” said Dean Johnson, chairman of the planning
committee for the watershed area being studied.

“Our intention is to gather input from as many individuals and businesses as we can in order to identify issues, concerns,