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Planning commission backs special‑use permit for Ogden Falls water receiving station
Summary
The commission recommended approval of a special‑use permit for a Lake Michigan water receiving station at 378 Ogden Falls Boulevard, approving a new pump station, meter station and a 1,000,000‑gallon storage tank subject to final engineering review; neighbors raised noise and construction concerns.
The Asweco Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of a special‑use permit for a Lake Michigan water receiving station at 378 Ogden Falls Boulevard, a project that will add a new meter and pumping station and a roughly 1,000,000‑gallon ground storage tank to the village high‑pressure zone.
Staff described the site as one of three custody transfer points where water from the DuPage Water Commission will be received, metered and boosted into the village distribution system. Brad Reese, assistant director of utilities in public works, said the installation includes a new receiving and pumping station, a meter station (DuPage equipment, which the village will not access internally) and the storage tank to maintain required on‑hand capacity.
Reese told commissioners he had contacted three nearby residents and said the village expects no continuous external pump noise because the pumps will be inside the new building; the only potential external sound would come from an emergency generator, which will be natural‑gas and housed indoors. "It's gonna be safer for, everybody, the environment and the workers and the residents," Reese said when describing a switch from chlorinated gas to liquid bleach for treatment.
Commissioners pressed on construction timing and neighborhood impacts. Reese said the village will enforce local noise hours and that contractors typically begin work earlier than the 7:30 a.m. start some residents requested; he estimated construction will last about a year and told the commission the existing well house will be demolished after the new system is fully operational. The village also plans to replace dilapidated perimeter fencing at multiple utility sites with an 8‑foot no‑climb fence in residential areas.
With no members of the public requesting to speak, the commission closed the hearing and voted to accept the findings of fact and recommend approval of the special use permit "subject to final engineering approval," as the motion stated. The recommendation will move to the village board as the next step.
The commission did not set a construction start date at the hearing; staff estimated major construction would occur in calendar year 2026, with some demolition of the existing well house possibly occurring in 2027.
