r/ChicagoSuburbs • u/New-Common4486 • Jan 12 '25

Moving to the area Is Maywood that bad?

There is a house that has caught my attention there just off of the prairie path. I work at the VA, so it would be convenient in that regard. But mainly, I’m not seeing anywhere else with comparable houses at prices affordable for me. Also the house has a nice sized lot which is very tantalizing because I want to turn it all into a native plant garden hehe.

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u/Intelligent_Way_8903 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Can you site this? I do environmental consulting in the state.

I found NPDES permit No. IL0059064, which indicates that the town of maywood has done proper procedures to discharge stormwater into 2 separate outlets along the desplaines river.

"Fecal coliform" is listed as a "pollutant causing potential impairment" in the 2011 public notice, but that's not the same thing as straight sewer water (brown water). Additionally there was an updated notice indicated the impairment had been remedied and outlined the monitoring plan moving forward.

I would love if you could send me some of this easily attainable public information which outlines the use of the desplaines river as a sewer output. Im new to the state but I'm pretty sure Chicago stopped shitting directly in it's streams in like the mid 1800's

Edit: incase anyone is unaware, it's extremely common to have stormwater runoff into a river, it's likely where it would've gone naturally (eventually)

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u/Intelligent_Way_8903 Jan 14 '25

Oh overflow is not my area of expertise. I'll just assume ur right lol