"It just keeps getting worse," Dave Zack, of Momence, said of the sand piling up in the Kankakee River.
Zack, 58, has lived on the river east of Momence all his life and remembers being able to water ski from his home just east of Momence and stateline bridge, eight serpentine river miles east, and back again.
Zack has served on the Kankakee River Conservancy District board since he retired from UPS 10 years ago. He's on the river three or four days per week with pontoon and johnboat checking out the Momence-stateline area the conservancy is responsible for trying to keep open. Or he's just canoing, kayaking or "taking people for a ride." Thursday was devoted to trying to remove one of the troublesome tree snags that are constantly developing.
On Monday, we were riding upstream on his pontoon boat to a horseshoe loop halfway to the state line, where the incessant flow of sand from Indiana has nearly shut a couple hundred yards of the channel, preventing even canoeists from floating through.
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