The Illinois EPA has awarded the City of Monmouth a Green Infrastructure Grant, which Mayor Rod Davies says it will be a great opportunity to work with the Monmouth-Roseville School District and construct rain garden features in the high school parking lot to divert storm water runoff:
“We are trying to work with them to make it part of their curriculum from a Biology standpoint and maybe from an FFA standpoint about the planting and the care and maintenance of those facilities then also what it means to divert that water from our combined sewer system. Our take away and the big advantage to the citizens is that we believe that this combined with the first two phases of our combined sewer overflow plan that we were mandated to do, we are hoping this will eliminate the third phase, which we believe it will based on preliminary studies. It would keep us from having to spend $1.5 million plus for that third phase. We are going to get these put in with the help of this grant and then we will study the events and see how we do.”
