Sentences with phrase «detention ponds»
Detention ponds are special areas designed to hold and store excess rainwater or runoff from storms. They help prevent flooding by slowing down the flow of water and allowing it to gradually seep into the ground or be released safely. Full definition
The school district's plans, however, are to have several detention ponds on the property and to replace a 12 - inch storm - water pipe with a 36 - inch one.
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School Board President Marge Persico said the school district's main concern is to satisfy drainage requirements without having to build a deep detention pond.
One bike path would begin near Buffalo Grove at the Sugar Creek detention pond and extend north through Sullivan Woods to the municipal golf course.
«Relocate this building, strengthen that other building, put a stormwater detention pond over on this side of town to prevent flooding of those six blocks,» Berke said.
The revised fitness center plan calls for a three - story structure, about 320 parking spaces and a detention pond on about 7 acres.
They said the center and accompanying parking lot and detention pond would disrupt the ecological balance of the neighboring preserve.
But officials of the Fox Valley Park District and Aurora Park Department explained that detention ponds were built to accommodate water in storms designated as capable of generating floods so severe they would occur only once in 100 years.
The Bensenville Park District has scheduled a public hearing Jan. 8 seeking residents «comments on a village proposal to put a detention pond at Lions Park.
The project, which includes a fitness center, medical offices, a detention pond and a parking lot, would take about a year to build, she said.
In Orland Park, planners are trying to piece together a greenbelt that would offer a mix of open space along creeks, cemeteries, parks, detention ponds and even the grassy land along the right of way of Commonwealth Edison main power lines.
Plans also call for creating three detention ponds and preserving two wetlands and 83 percent of the trees on the site.
Plans also call for a left - hand turn lane on Irving Park at the entry to the development, a sidewalk along that highway and a detention pond and bicycle path.
«Local governments and our tax payers are left with unmanageable costs to fix infrastructure, including roads, bridges, culverts, retaining walls, detention ponds and many others,» Picente said in his letter.
By Sean Ryan The detention pond design municipal officials say is the cheapest way to satisfy state requirements would be outlawed under the latest proposed runoff rules.
For example you could add a detention pond to the property or rainwater catchment.