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Residents and staff describe heavy‑rain runoff in Shiloh Ridge; village staff urges maintenance, not major redesign
Summary
A resident and village staff described heavy runoff after recent storms in the Shiloh Ridge area, with staff saying detention basins and culverts functioned as designed and recommending culvert clearing and limited field measures while noting larger structural changes would require development and regulatory review.
Scott Hartman, introduced to the board as a presenter on drainage, described substantial runoff during recent heavy rains that traveled from farm fields behind the school through ditches along Shiloh and Ernest streets and into the detention infrastructure near the junior high.
A village staff member (S2) explained the detention basin adjacent to the school was installed to manage added rooftop and parking runoff and said the drainage paths leading to Johnsburg Road and ultimately the Fox River are established by the original subdivision design and existing easements. "That volume of water is getting into the ditches where it naturally came before Shiloh Ridge was developed," the staff member said, adding that the culverts and ditches "did their jobs" during the storm.
Staff recommended routine maintenance—making sure 18‑inch culverts are clean, sweeping gravel back to preserve road edges and inspecting drainage ways for fences, sheds or debris that could block flow. The staff member noted that larger changes such as upsizing pipes or building new detention on farm land are constrained by design standards and property‑access issues and could require farmer cooperation and regulatory review.
Trustees and attendees raised possibilities including rock check dams on farmland and questions about whether a golf‑cart connection off Ernest altered flow. Staff said they would share maps and exhibits and follow up with residents and the developer's engineer; a follow‑up call on open questions was scheduled.
