Village Gives Residents Option for Ridding Property of Storm Water
The Village Board approves special piping that will be installed in the curbs near some homes during the road construction around Downer Avenue.
Village officials Monday approved placing a special pipe in the street curb as part of the $2.3 million North Downer Avenue road reconstruction program. Trustee Don Ford cast the lone vote against spending $84,000 to place PVC piping in the curb, and giving residents the option to make a lateral connection to that piping to remove storm water from their property. The board already has awarded more than $2.3 million in contracts for the reconstruction of Downer, and Trustee Jeff Hanewall said Monday's vote is an opportunity to install the piping while construction is occurring. The work signals the initial steps of the village's comprehensive approach at faulty sewers that caused basement backups after torrential July rains hit the area. “…
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Absolutelyfabulous
7:57 am on Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Actually, maybe this illustration makes it a bit clearer for what I am asking. The illustration is a graphic showing what a house may look like w/ all of it's storm/sewer laterals to the street. In the graphic it shows a house w/ a gable roof and on the left side 1 downspout connection to the storm sewer lateral. Now for this type of house you would need another downspout on the right side (which… more ›