Stormwater Pump Station – Franklin Park, IL

Posted by on February 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Romtec Utilities Stormwater Pump Station - Illinois

Romtec Utilities stormwater pump station in Franklin Park, Illinois

The village of Franklin Park, Ill. is home to about 20,000 people and includes the fourth largest industrial area in the state. Grand Avenue is a main east-west route between the area south of O’Hare International Airport and Chicago to the east. Rail lines intersecting Grand Ave. include the only north-south route of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Dozens of trains cross Grand Ave. every day.

Municipal leaders have been working for nearly 50 years to build an underpass designed to alleviate the traffic congestion at railroad crossings along Grand Avenue. “It was a horrible backup problem that impacted every driver on the road,” says David Talbot of Clark Dietz Engineers, who serves as the village engineer. Read more

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