CLIENT

Lake County Forest Preserves

LOCATION​

Unincorporated Lake County, IL

PROJECT FEATURES
  • Government Facility
  • Access Improvements
  • Parking (180 spaces)
  • Sustainable Design
  • Bio-Swales
  • Settling Pools
  • Wetlands
  • Stormwater Improvements
  • Utility Improvements
  • Storm Sewer
SCOPE OF SERVICES
  • Topographic Survey
  • Boundary Survey
  • Conceptual Planning
  • Final Engineering
  • Roadway Design
  • Traffic Study
  • Sustainable Design
  • Wetland Permitting
  • Construction Observation
COST

$1.7 Million

Aerial view of a developed site featuring a large building, parking lot, and surrounding landscape with roads and water features.
Aerial view of a civil engineering project showing a newly developed parking lot, green spaces, and ongoing construction near a road.

Gewalt Hamilton Associates, Inc. (GHA) provided civil engineering services for the Lake County Forest Preserve District’s Operations and Public Safety Center, located in the Fourth Lake Forest Preserve, just south of the Village of Lindenhurst, Illinois. The project included construction of a 100,000-square-foot public safety facility, a 180-space parking lot, fuel and material storage facilities, and widening improvements for access onto IL Route 132.

GHA engineered an extensive system of bio-swales, settling pools, and wetland plantings into the design of the site’s stormwater management system. This was done meet and exceed the requirements of the Lake County Watershed Development Ordinance and the objectives of the Lake County Forest Preserve District.

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