DuPage River Trail Public Information Session Planned For September

BOLINGBROOK, IL — A public information meeting will be held in September for the DuPage River Trail - Weber Road improvements project, according to the Forest Preserve District of Will County.

The meeting will feature exhibits, engineering documents, maps, drawings and aerial photography for the project, which is in Phase I engineering. Information also will cover the need for the projects, design alternatives and a tentative construction schedule, the preserve said.

The meeting for the DuPage River Trail will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 23 at Hidden Oaks Nature Center, 419 Trout Farm Road, in Bolingbrook.

Forest Preserve staff and engineers hired by the District will be on hand to answer questions and collect comments. Those unable to attend may submit comments by email, but only during each project’s designated comment period.

The preserve said this project would add two trail sections. A 0.4-mile north-south stretch would begin at an existing DuPage River Trail segment east of Weber Road and south of Royce Road in Naperville, crossing the East Branch of the DuPage River to connect with a new path beginning in Bolingbrook’s Indian Boundary Park.

From there, the path would run east to the DuPage River Greenway Trail owned by the Bolingbrook Park District. The improvements would create a 6-mile loop from the Royce/Weber intersection east to Whalon Lake, south across the river into Hidden Lakes Trout Farm and back along the Bolingbrook side of the river, according to the preserve.

Comments will be accepted from 5:30 p.m. Sept. 23 through 5 p.m. on Oct. 24, via email to John Stecyk at jstecyk@fpdwc.org.