Bartlett approves Lake Michigan water system
Bartlett village board members Tuesday approved construction of a pumping station and two 1.5-million-gallon storage tanks allowing the village to receive Lake Michigan water for the first time in the spring of 2019.
The meeting also demonstrated that officials had met with some success in allaying concerns of neighbors about whether landscaping would screen the new equipment from their homes near the existing public works complex on Bittersweet Drive, Village President Kevin Wallace said. This will be an ongoing process and the neighbors will be hands-on partners in the landscape design, he added.
Bartlett officials gave notice in December 2016 that on May 1, 2019 the village would end its long arrangement of receiving 60 percent of its water from the Fox River via Elgin and the rest from wells.
Instead, the village is joining the DuPage Water Commission, Chicago's largest customer of Lake Michigan water.