Skip to main content
  • Please join our contract bid opening live stream at mwrd.org/bidopening
Public NoticesBoard Meetings News Careers Gallery
 
  
Home Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

Main navigation

  • About
    • Awards and Achievements
    • Board of Commissioners
    • Budget and Financial
    • Chicago Area Waterway System
    • Civil Service Board
    • History
    • Inspector General
    • Management
    • Mission Statement
    • Municipalities
    • Partnerships
    • Service Area Map
  • Strategic Plan
  • Services
    • Biosolids
    • CSO and Rainfall Data
    • EQ Compost
    • FOIA Request
    • Green Infrastructure
    • Rain Barrels
    • Report an Issue
    • Stormwater Management
    • Trees/Restore the Canopy
    • Unwanted Medicine
    • Water Reclamation Plants
  • Projects
    • Addison Creek Reservoir
    • Arrowhead Lake
    • Buffalo Creek Reservoir
    • Cherry Creek Flood Control
    • Crestwood Flood Control
    • Lakefront Erosion Control Project
    • Melvina Ditch Reservoir
    • Natalie Creek
    • Nutrient Reduction Research
    • Robbins Stormwater Park
    • Tinley Creek Flood Control
    • Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
  • Education
    • Community Engagement
    • Flood Prevention 101
    • Go Easy on the Salt
    • K-12 Learning
    • Overflow Prevention
    • Publications
    • Save the Monarchs
    • Seminars and Presentations
    • Sustainability Summit
    • Tour our Facilities
    • Understanding Your Sewer
    • Water Quality
    • “WHERE DOES IT GO?”
  • Events
  • Documents
    • Forms
    • Reports
    • Rules and Ordinances
  • Doing Business
    • Affirmative Action
    • Dental Amalgam
    • Lobbyist Registration
    • Make a Payment
    • Permits
    • Procurement and Materials Management
    • Real Estate
    • Resource Recovery
    • Treasury and Investments
    • WMO and Infiltration/Inflow
  • COVID-19
Menu
Blue Screen
Blue Screen
Blue Screen

Watershed Management Ordinance General Information

  1. Home
  2. Watershed Management Ordinance General Information

Share

  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  

The following is general information pertaining to the specifics of the The Watershed Management Ordinance (WMO)

PDF Image  WMO (As amended on May 7, 2020) (6.6 MB)

PDF Document Icon Redline (As amended on May 7, 2020) (6.7 MB)

 

Watershed Management Ordinance: Amendment Summary

Watershed Management Ordinance: Short Summary (Spanish)

Permit information

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Assistance Program

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Presentations

WMO Permit Application Forms and Fees

Permit Flow Charts -- Under Revision, Currently Unavailable

Permit Checklists

Information Pamphlets for Developers and Homeowners

Authorized Municipalities and Multi-County Municipalities

Watershed Planning Areas

Detention and Volume Control Trading

 

Home

Metropolitan Water Reclamation

District of Greater Chicago

100 East Erie Street

Chicago, IL 60611

(312) 751-5600

         
  •  Contact
  •  MWRD Employee Credit Union
  •  MWRD Retirement Fund
  •  Privacy & Terms of use

Join our email list

To stay informed.

 
  • About
    • Awards and Achievements
    • Board of Commissioners
    • Budget and Financial
    • Chicago Area Waterway System
    • Civil Service Board
    • History
    • Inspector General
    • Management
    • Mission Statement
    • Municipalities
    • Partnerships
    • Service Area Map
  • Strategic Plan
  • Services
    • Biosolids
    • CSO and Rainfall Data
    • EQ Compost
    • FOIA Request
    • Green Infrastructure
    • Rain Barrels
    • Report an Issue
    • Stormwater Management
    • Trees/Restore the Canopy
    • Unwanted Medicine
    • Water Reclamation Plants
  • Projects
    • Addison Creek Reservoir
    • Arrowhead Lake
    • Buffalo Creek Reservoir
    • Cherry Creek Flood Control
    • Crestwood Flood Control
    • Lakefront Erosion Control Project
    • Melvina Ditch Reservoir
    • Natalie Creek
    • Nutrient Reduction Research
    • Robbins Stormwater Park
    • Tinley Creek Flood Control
    • Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
  • Education
    • Community Engagement
    • Flood Prevention 101
    • Go Easy on the Salt
    • K-12 Learning
    • Overflow Prevention
    • Publications
    • Save the Monarchs
    • Seminars and Presentations
    • Sustainability Summit
    • Tour our Facilities
    • Understanding Your Sewer
    • Water Quality
    • “WHERE DOES IT GO?”
  • Events
  • Documents
    • Forms
    • Reports
    • Rules and Ordinances
  • Doing Business
    • Affirmative Action
    • Dental Amalgam
    • Lobbyist Registration
    • Make a Payment
    • Permits
    • Procurement and Materials Management
    • Real Estate
    • Resource Recovery
    • Treasury and Investments
    • WMO and Infiltration/Inflow
  • COVID-19