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Mayor: Lake Michigan water connection is Montgomery's top infrastructure priority
Summary
The mayor said the village is in early design stages of a transmission main to bring Lake Michigan drinking water from the DuPage Water Commission into Montgomery with Oswego and Yorkville, citing depleted local aquifers as the reason for the project.
The mayor described a decade-long effort to study local water supplies and said village staff and the board have identified connecting to Lake Michigan as the best long-term solution. "My personal favorite project, probably the most important project that we are working on in Montgomery is solidifying Lake Michigan drinking water," he said.
He said the village is in the early design stages of extending a transmission main that would carry water from the DuPage Water Commission into Montgomery and its partners in Oswego and Yorkville. The mayor emphasized the project's potential to secure high-quality drinking water "for generations to come" but did not provide a schedule, cost estimate or funding sources during the remarks.
