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Residents press for reservoir inspections and propose waste-haul changes at La Grange board meeting
Summary
Public commenters urged La Grange trustees to fund inspection and repairs for the Plainfield & East Avenue water reservoir and to rethink the village's waste-hauling contract; the Environmental Quality Commission recommended bidding the contract, a volume-based user-fee program, and year‑round food-scrap composting.
Residents used the April 14 public-comment period to press the Village Board on infrastructure and environmental services.
John Pluto told trustees he could find no records of interior or robotic/dive inspections of the water reservoir on Plainfield and East Avenue and that FOIA responses were incomplete or redacted. Pluto said a 2013 engineering report recommended interior and exterior rehabilitation, including repair of exposed rebar and high-performance coatings, and estimated a 2013 cost of about…
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