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$250K settlement will help Yorkville prevent flooding in Whispering Meadows · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty thousand settlement will help Yorkville prevent
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  flooding in Whispering Meadows. Written by Joey Weslow, This article
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  is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  by Everlett. Currently there is just a hole in the
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  middle of a field with a piece of pipe in it.
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  But after a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars investment
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  made possible by a settled lawsuit, the at risk floodplain
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  in Yorkville's Whispering Meadows subdivision may finally drain properly and
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  allow full residential development, with construction slated for later this year.
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  The project, which will design an outflow system to stream
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  rain waters into the rob Roy Drainage Ditch and out
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  toward the Fox River, will not actually make a big
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  dent in the city's pocketbook. That's because the majority of
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  the funding for the project comes from an agreement with
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  the previous developers of the property, TRJA two LLC. In
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  July twenty twenty four, TRG two LLC agreed to pay
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  the city seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars regarding the
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  fifteen acre property. The lawsuits stemmed from infrastructure construction on
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  the property that was abandoned by the developers. The property
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  has since sat unfinished since about two thousand and nine.
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  These are dollars from the settlement that we reached in
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  August last year, Yorkville Mayor John Purcell said at the
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  January twenty eighth City Council meeting. This is some much
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  needed infrastructure improvement after heavy rains on the property, the
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  area is prone to episodes of flooding and water stagnation.
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  The focus of the project is to engineer away for
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  the water to drain properly by constructing an outfall, a
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  type of storm sewer for the property's stormwater basins. The
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  city Council approved a twenty six thousand, nine hundred and
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  thirty six engineering contract with Engineering Enterprises, Inc. To design
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  the storm sewer and can neck the passageway to the
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  drainage ditch conduit. The residential development of the majority of
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  the subdivision is imminent, according to city records. We will
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  more than likely have to put some city money towards
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  the storm sewer because the settlement just won't cover everything,
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  said Eric Deuce's, Yorkville's director of Public Works. The most
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  important thing is to help the ponds on the property
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  drain properly. Currently, when there's heavy rains, the water has
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  nowhere to go when it just sits there. We want
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  to prevent future flooding. The city also received a settlement
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  from the property's other previous partners, Fidelity and Deposit Company
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  of Maryland. In twenty eighteen. Fidelity agreed to pay the
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  city eight hundred thousand dollars. The funds were used to
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  repair and repave many of the neighborhood's in neglected streets
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  and sidewalks to improve the area for residents. The city
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  also recently finished Faxon Road as part of the city's
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  three million dollars twenty twenty four local Road Program