After more than an hour of often impassioned public comment, board member statements and a final plea from Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson, the District 161 Board of Education voted Monday, April 8, to approve an easement that will enable the creation of a detention basin near Heather Hill School.
The basin will be a temporary water storage structure, part of a proposed system to relieve flooding in downtown Flossmoor and in the Berry Lane neighborhood.
