The Village of Glendale Heights has implemented several guidelines as part of our efforts to keep the public and Village employees safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. All
inspections will adhere to these additional guidelines, which can be found on this
inspection requirement form.
Coronavirus/COVID-19
Community Development counter services re-opened. Customers are required to wear face masks and practice social distancing. Community Development will continue to
accept submissions via mail, drop box, fax and email. Please call 630.260.6030 with inquiries and to confirm submissions with staff. Mail should be sent to the
attention of Community Development at Village Hall. Faxes can be sent to 630.260.1317. Email inquiries and submissions related to permits, real estate transfers, rental
licensing, & business licensing can be made using the following email addresses. Due to data system restrictions, the maximum email attachment size is 25 MB
(megabytes). Please call 630.260.6030 to have alternate submission arrangements made if the attachment is larger.
Municipal storm water management for local governments has evolved over time from an urban flood control function, to water and resource management function, to an environmental
protection and regulatory function. All three functions now co-exist as responsibilities of local government.
What Is Municipal Stormwater?
Municipal storm water is surface water runoff from public and private lands in urban areas. Typically municipal storm water is collected in municipal separate storm sewer systems
consisting of drains, pipes, and ditches, and conveyed to nearby streams, rivers, lakes, estuaries, basins, wetlands, and oceans carrying with it a variety of urban pollutants.
The United States Environmental Protection Administration (USEPA) in their Phase I Municipal Stormwater regulations defined storm water to mean "...storm water runoff, snow
melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage." In their Phase II storm water regulations EPA defined a "municipal separate storm sewer" to mean in part, a conveyance
or system of conveyances, including roads with drainage systems and municipal streets, that is owned or operated by a State, city, town, borough, county, parish, district,
association, or other public body designed or used for collecting of conveying storm water which is not a combined sewer and which is not part of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
Phase II will address the following components:
Public education and outreach
Public involvement
Illicit discharge detection and elimination
Construction Site Runoff Control
Post-Construction Runoff Control
Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping for Municipal Operations
More information regarding these components is available on the following website links:
Part of the Village of Glendale Heights efforts to eliminate polluted Storm Water runoff include street sweeping, storm sewer cleaning, and recycling, such as at the Glendale
Lakes Golf Club which uses irrigation water from its 10 ponds that accumulate storm water runoff.
Links to annual reports and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Program Permit can be found below: