McHENRY – The city will seek to acquire the water service for McHenry Shores, a subdivision long plagued by water quality and service complaints.

Last fall, the city began a nonbinding poll of McHenry Shores residents in which more than half of the households responded, and the vast majority of them, 285 to 30, favored dumping service by the existing McHenry Shores Water Co. and going with city water, City Administrator Derik Morefield said.

Residents of the 530-home subdivision had until Saturday to respond to the city survey.