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Flood control agreement with the Water Reclamation District for Prairie Creek

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On May 18, 2026 the City Council approved, on its consent agenda, an intergovernmental agreement with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago for construction and maintenance of a flood control project on Prairie Creek. The staff memo explains that the District funds construction, while the City accepts long-term maintenance within its limits and pays to upsize the Dempster storm sewer, estimated at $436,369. The consent agenda vote was 6–0.

Documented status: Approved (recorded), May 18 2026. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    City Council approves the agreement

    Meeting date: May 18 2026. Agenda item VIII. L. 3. (consent agenda): Approve an Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Park Ridge and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago for Construction and Maintenance of a Flood Control Project on Prairie Creek. Item VI: the motion carried (6 to 0, 1 absent).

    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-05-18, City Council, May 18 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-05-18, City Council, May 18 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-05-18, City Council, May 18 2026. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.

  • Estimate

    $436,369

    Construction

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Park Ridge and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago for Construction and Maintenance of a Flood Control Project on Prairie Creek (Memorandum), City Council, May 18 2026. Open the quote and source.

Contracts, payments and completion

No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.

Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?

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No explicit connection is published for this item.

What remains unresolved?

No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.

Open questions

No open question is recorded for this item.

What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?

No conflicting records are published for this item.

Official source records

  1. City Council minutes, 2026-05-18

    City Council, May 18 2026

  2. Approve an Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Park Ridge and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago for Construction and Maintenance of a Flood Control Project on Prairie Creek (Memorandum)

    City Council, May 18 2026

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 3(current)

    Edition 3: 2 revised.

  2. Edition 2Read this edition

    Edition 2: 2 revised.

  3. Edition 1Read this edition

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Flood control agreement with the Water Reclamation District for Prairie Creek,” sources reviewed 2026-09-27, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.