Engineering and Permits

Fox Metro’s Engineering Office is located at 1135 S. Lake St. Montgomery, IL, 60538. To ask any question(s) regarding the status of your project submittal, or to receive instruction on how to submit plans for review please contact us at 630-301-6882. To submit plans for review, please send via email in PDF format to: submittals@foxmetro.org

The mission of the Fox Metro Engineering Department is to improve the efficiency of the department by developing and exchanging ideas, information and technology which enhance the delivery of public services; and by promoting the personal and professional growth of its staff members.

One of the major responsibilities of the Engineering Department is to coordinate proper connections to and extensions of the collection (sewer) system which conveys sewage to the wastewater treatment plant. This is done as follows.

What do Fox Metro’s fees pay for?

• Annexation Fees: Pays for the proportionate share of operations, maintenance and rehabilitation of the existing collection system such as investigatory sewer televising, pipe lining, grouting of manholes, and excavation for repairs to reduce infiltration and inflow in the existing collection system.

• Infrastructure Fees: The fair share cost to construct, not only new manholes and interceptor sewers 15” & inches and larger, including new pump stations and new forcemains.  Also, as service areas expand, Infrastructure Fees also pay for the inevitable & perpetual replacement and eventual upsizing of same manholes, chambers, interceptors, pump stations, siphons, and forcemains.

• Connection Fees: As new sewage discharges from buildings, fixtures, and equipment consume a proportionate share of the treatment plant’s capacity, these fees finance the eventual costs associated with expansion of the daily volume of wastewater the plant can treat, including paying for unfunded mandates for plant improvements such as phosphorus removal, etc.

• User Fees: Operation, repairs, overhead, debt service, and chemicals for perpetual preservation and maintenance of the treatment plant works.