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DuPage County stormwater team wins APWA honor for Country Club Highlands flood project
Summary
DuPage County’s stormwater department received the American Public Works Association environmental project award for multi-phase Country Club Highlands drainage improvements that used ARPA funding to build a 48-inch relief sewer, a 1.3 acre-foot underground storage vault and more than 3,000 feet of new storm infrastructure protecting 200+ homes and a school.
Jamie Locke, DuPage County’s chief stormwater engineer, told the county’s Stormwater Management Committee on Feb. 3 that the department accepted the American Public Works Association environmental project award in January for the Country Club Highlands Drainage Improvement Project. “If it wasn't for the support and leadership from Cherise and the entire SOMR committee, we wouldn't have even been there to accept the award,” Locke said.
Locke said the project addressed decades of chronic flooding in the unincorporated Country Club Highlands subdivision of Elmhurst after spring 2019 storms left roads blocked, an elementary school affected and some residences evacuated by…
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