Title
Joint resolution authorizing execution of an Agreement for Sewage Disposal Services for the area of the Wynstone Subdivision with the Village of North Barrington and the Village of Lake Zurich.
Staff Summary
• The Public Works and Transportation Committee gave approval on April 2, 2008 to proceed with development of an agreement to provide sewage disposal services to the Wynstone Property Owners Association (WPOA).
• An agreement has been developed that provides for WPOA constructing the sewage facilities, the Village of North Barrington owning the facilities and the Village of Lake Zurich transporting the sewage to the County’s Des Plaines River Water Reclamation Facility.
• The agreement contemplates that the WPOA continue to operate their current spray irrigation wastewater treatment system and allow discharges up to 100,000 gallons per day into the transportation and treatment systems of Lake Zurich and the County.
• The system would serve 230 residences, approximately 135,000 square feet of commercial office buildings and a clubhouse with restaurants and commercial areas, all within the Village of North Barrington.
• The agreement also contemplates that this system would be used as a regional sewage system that could be used to serve properties in Lake Zurich, Hawthorn Woods or unincorporated Lake County.
• This resolution authorizes execution of an Agreement for Sewage Disposal Services for the area of the Wynstone Subdivision with the Village of North Barrington and the Village of Lake Zurich.
Body
WHEREAS, the County of Lake owns, operates and maintains a regional sewage treatment facility that serves a number of communities in the Southeast Lake Facilities Planning Area; and
WHEREAS, the County has, since 1989, served the Village of Lake Zurich, pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement for Sewage Disposal; and
WHEREAS, the Village of North Barrington desires to provide sanitary sewer service to a certain area within the Village to be delivered through the Lake Zurich sanitary system and treated at the County’s Des Plaines River Water Reclamation Facility on a wholesale basis; and
WHEREAS, prior to this agreement, the County and the Village of North Barrington have not been a party to any contract for Sanitary Sewer Service; and
WHEREAS, the proposed area to be served includes the Wynstone Subdivision in the Village of North Barrington; and
WHEREAS, the County has determined that it has sufficient available capacity within its Des Plaines River Water Reclamation Facility interceptor to provide sewer service to the proposed area; and
WHEREAS, execution of a Wholesale Agreement for Sewage Disposal must be authorized by Resolution of the County Board.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Chairman of the County Board and Clerk of Lake County be and are hereby authorized and directed to execute an Agreement for Sewage Disposal Services for the area of the Wynstone Subdivision with the Village of North Barrington and the Village of Lake Zurich in substantially the attached form.
DATED at WAUKEGAN, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, on this 12th day of May A.D., 2009.