Engineering

The Engineering Division provides city-wide mapping support, infrastructure design and construction management, subdivision/private development plan review, and maintenance of the Capital Improvement Plan.

Major Activities of the Engineering Division:

• Monitors and approves subdivision and private development plans to ensure infrastructure elements comply with city codes, ordinances and regulations for design and construction standards

• Administers the City's Capital Improvement Plan

• Maintains a computerized map and data inventory system to provide information concerning right-of-way vacations, City easements, annexation records, parcel and street addressing, street, sanitary and storm sewer systems, and City limit boundaries

• Administers the process of assigning addresses and legal descriptions for annexations, boundary determinations, and property vacations

• Maintains and coordinates the City’s G.I.S. (Geographical Information System) program

• Performs engineering design and construction management services for transportation improvement construction projects, which include streets, curbs, sidewalks, streetlights and traffic signals.

• Performs engineering design and construction management services for sanitary and storm sewer construction projects

• Performs biennial bridge inspections and reports inspection results to the Illinois Department of Transportation as required by state law

• Performs ongoing inflow/infiltration and drainage studies to identify problem sewers, analyze alternative remedies and implement solutions

• Issues and administers Right-Of-Way Permits

• Issues and administers Erosion Control Permits