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.
The Engineering Department provides developers with information and guidance regarding possible connection points, costs, and requirements of obtaining Fox Metro’s wastewater treatment services. Once a possible connection point from the proposed development to the collection system is selected, the Engineering Department prepares a draft annexation agreement for the development to be included in Fox Metro’s corporate boundary and service area.
The Engineering Department then provides the Developer with guidance in the preparation of various IEPA and Fox Metro permit applications and required plans. The Developer then submits a set of building and/or street sewer plans, depending upon the project type, for review by the Engineering Department. If the Engineering Department approves the permit application and plans, it then uses a standard rate schedule to determine and collect permitting and connection fees. The standard fee schedule helps ensure that each development pays its fair share for the capacity of the treatment plant that it will use.
Once the Engineering Department has issued a permit, the Developer must use a bonded contractor to construct the sewer service connection. The Engineering Department schedules periodic inspection of the construction to help ensure that Fox Metro specifications are being met. The Engineering Department does not allow newly completed sewers to be used until after they have passed various testing procedures. An internal television camera inspection is then done after all testing.
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.
General Information and Specifications
The following is a list of general information, specifications and diagrams frequently requested from the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District Engineering Department. The list is not meant to be all inclusive nor is it intended to represent all specifications, fees, charges, or other requirements of the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District.
General Information
- Sewer Use Ordinance 885
- Annexation & Infrastructure Fees
- Annexation Documents
- Submittal Requirements
- Sanitary Sewer Design Guidelines
- Contractor Notice
- General Notes
- Manhole Sewer Pipe Specifications
- Rules and Regulations (not for design plans)
- Basic Rates & Fees Schedule
Fox Metro Diagrams
 |  | Clean Out |
| | Trench For Sanitary Services & Mains |
| | Service Connection |
| | Riser Connection For Service Lateral |
| | Pipe To Existing Manhole Connection |
| | Type A Manhole |
| | Type C Manhole |
| | Drop Manhole / New Construction |
| | New Manhole Added to Existing Pipe |
| | Drop Connection Added To Existing Manhole |
| | Sanitary Sewer Service & Potable Water Service Separation |
| | Sanitary Sewer Crossing Under Storm Sewer |
| | Service Abandonment / Re-Installation |
| | Sanitary Sewer Service through Porch Box |
Grease Removal Systems (GRS)
| | 50 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 65 Gallon Schier 4″ |
| | 100 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 125 Gallon Schier 4″ or 6″ |
| | 140 Gallon Mifab Big Max |
| | 150 Gallon Endura XL |
| | 150 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 250 Gallon Endura XL |
| | 250 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 277 Gallon Schier 4″ or 6″ |
| | 300 Gallon Mifab Big Max |
| | 300 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 500 Gallon Mifab Super Max |
| | 510 Gallon Schier 4″ or 6″ |
| | 500 Gallon ADS |
| | 500 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 700 Gallon ADS |
| | 750 Gallon Mifab Super Max |
| | 750 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 1,000 Gallon Xerxes GI (4” & 6”) |
| | 1,000 Gallon Mifab Super Max |
| | 1,000 Gallon ADS |
| | 1,000 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 1,000 Gallon Schier 6″ |
| | 1,250 Gallon Xerxes GI (4” & 6”) |
| | 1,250 Gallon Mifab Super Max |
| | 1,300 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 1,500 Gallon Xerxes GI (4” & 6”) |
| | 1,500 Gallon Mifab Super Max |
| | 1,500 Gallon ADS |
| | 1,500 Gallon Zurn Green Turtle Proceptor |
| | 1,500 Gallon Schier 6″ |
Miscellaneous Diagrams
Permits
