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La Grange updates flood response after judge allows hookup to 54-inch pipe; quarry appeals
Summary
Trustees reviewed a recent court victory allowing the village to reconnect to a 54-inch pipe as part of flood mitigation plans while attorneys for Hansen Quarry have filed an appeal and motion for a stay; residents described repeated basement flooding and urged faster action.
La Grange Village President Kugler told the Board of Trustees Monday that a judge ruled in the village's favor in litigation with Hansen Quarry and that the village is planning engineering work to use what was described in court as a 54-inch pipe as part of flood mitigation efforts.
"We were successful with our litigation against the quarry. The judge found unanimously in our favor and ruled that we could hook into what was our 54 inch pipe," President Kugler said, adding that the quarry's attorneys have filed a notice of appeal and a motion for a stay.
The ruling and the quarry's filings matter because trustees and residents described repeated, rapidly occurring summer storms that have caused street and basement flooding across parts of La Grange. Trustees said the village will continue engineering design while the appeal proceeds and that two motions in the trial court (including the village's motion…
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