Downers Grove Praised for Stormwater Improvements at 2nd and Cumnor
The village has been named the winner of the 2012 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award by the Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Village of Downers Grove has been recognized by the Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for its work on the naturalized basin and stormwater improvements at 2nd Street and Cumnor Road. The ASCE awarded the village the 2012 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award for projects under $5 million. The award is presented each year to engineering projects that "exhibit the greatest engineering skills and represent the greatest contribution to civil engineering progress and mankind," according to the ASCE website. Work on the stormwater project at the 200-acre watershed on 2nd Street and Cumnor Road began in August 2011 in response to chronic flooding problems. Plans called for the voluntary buy-out and …
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J. Geoff Rove
7:12 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012
So how many other repo shacks will become "storage areas" ?? more ›