Oswego panel recommends special-use permit for Ogden Falls water receiving station

The Oswego Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday recommended approval of a special‑use permit for a water receiving and pumping station at 378 Ogden Falls Boulevard that will allow the village to accept Lake Michigan water, subject to final engineering approval.

The project will add a new water storage tank, a receiving/pumping station and a meter station to the existing site while keeping the current Ogden Falls water tower in operation. Jeff Lind, planning staff, and Brad Reiss, assistant director, utilities for public works, said the site would operate as a high‑zone receiving point to boost lower‑pressure water supplied by the DuPage Water Commission into the village distribution system.

Reiss told the commission the site design calls for a roughly 1,000,000‑gallon ground storage tank that will be about 30 feet above ground and a pumping station sized about 70 by 50 feet. He said the…