Village Debuts PrairieWalk Pond
Trustees and designers were on hand to unveil this village-owned park between Main Street and Route 53.
This afternoon village employees helped unveil the new PrairieWalk Pond during downtown trick-or-treat hours. Mayor Joe Broda, the village trustees, economic director Cathy Schuster, village manager Jerry Sprecher and public works director Jason Elias congratulated the park's designers and explained the park's benefits to the downtown area and village at large. The park comes after several months of work and a $400,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Wheaton's Planning Resources Inc. created the park with an "emphasis on sustainability." Once a floodplain, the water retention pond stores runoff from up to ten acres of the downtown area—a purpose crucial to helping the downtown's redevelopment. The park's features …
