Trustees directed the village engineer to seek other cost-saving opportunities within the project, which proposes installing storm sewers under Willow Road.
Winnetka trustees could consider installing new storm sewers beneath Willow Road to ease the village’s flooding issues after hearing a presentation by the village engineer Tuesday. The proposed Willow Road Tunnel project would install an eight-foot diameter storm sewer underneath Willow Road from Glendale Avenue to Lake Michigan that would use gravity to move water from a roughly 900-acre drainage area in west Winnetka eastward toward Lake Michigan. “The various hurdles that I could imagine and (the engineering firm) could imagine would stop this projects in its track don’t seem to be an issue in terms of the ultimate piece of the project,” said Village Engineer Steve Saunders. Winnetka contracted engineering firm Christopher B. Burke …
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The first step toward fixing Winnetka's flooding problem is approved after more than 1,000 homes were destroyed last year in the village.
An almost $18,000 contract to study the flooding problem in Winnetka was approved Thursday night by the Village Council, according to Winnetka Talk, and officials are hoping it will fix the village’s issues with excessive rainfall once and for all. This comes after Winnetka residents attended a village council meeting last August demanding action. On July 23, 2011, the village saw the "largest single-day rainfall since records began in 1871," resulting in massive floods and property damage. The newly approved study, which was awarded to Christopher B. Burke Engineering, will look at an 80-acre plot of land south of Tower Road between the Winnetka Golf Course and Hibbard Road. “This area was studied in 2001, and 10-year design improvements…
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