2022 Sustainability in Civil Engineering Achievement Award

Congratulations to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Lake County Forest Preserve District, and Village of Buffalo Grove for receiving the 2022 Sustainability in Civil Engineering Achievement Award from the Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Hey staff including Patrick Lach, Jeff Mengler, and Tim Pollowy were honored to join Joe Kratzer and Justin Kirk from MWRD and Kevin Kleinjan and Michael Haug from Lake County Forest Preserves during the presentation of the award. The project provided an additional 180 acre-feet of much needed flood storage, created over 1.5 miles of new trails and 7 boardwalks, enhanced several thousand feet of stream channel, restored over 50 acres of native prairie and wetlands, and planted more than 700 native trees in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.