Washington Street, Main Street and Eagle Street Bridges are closed; Jefferson Avenue now closed at the Jefferson Avenue Bridge
REMINDER: Schools in both District 203 and District 204 are closed Friday, April 19.
UPDATE: 4:30AM / City of Naperville: All downtown bridges are closed at this time (Washington, Main, Eagle and Jefferson west of downtown). The City highly encourages all people to avoid the downtown area for their safety including the traveling public. They will be providing updates all morning. Please visit www.naperville.il.us/floodops.aspx.
For your safety, please do not go near flooded roadways, retention ponds or the DuPage River.
At this time, Jefferson Avenue is closed to traffic at the Jefferson Avenue Bridge due to high water levels. Jackson Avenue between Main and Webster also now is closed. Water along Jackson Ave. is expected to crest by noon Friday. In anticipation of higher water along Main Street, Sullivan’s Steakhouse is barricaded with sand bags and will not be opened for lunch on Friday.
The interactive flood map on the City’s website at www.naperville.il.us will be updated with the latest road closure and alert information by 5AM on Friday, April 19 for motorists to plan their morning commute.
Current major road closures anticipated to impact the morning commute include
- Naper Boulevard from Chicago Avenue to Hobson Road
- Washington Street south of Royce Road
- North Aurora Road west of Route 59 and between Route 59 and Tudor
- 111th – 248th west to the Railroad (closed by RR)
Additional communications as to the status of bridge closures and re-openings will be communicated via www.naperville.il.us as they become available.
Signage is located at Washington Street and Naper Boulevard at 75th Street to alert motorists and direct them to alternate routes. Police officers will be stationed throughout the downtown at barricades to ensure public safety and direct the public accordingly.
For the morning commute, the map showing road closures and those streets with standing water is updated and available to view on the City’s website at www.naperville.il.us. . A Flood Operations webpage is updated at www.naperville.il.us/floodops.aspx.
Flood Clean-Up Information
For those residents who have experienced flooding in their homes, Allied Waste will collect all carpeting placed at the curb through the end of next week, provided the carpeting is bundled in segments no more than four feet in length, two feet wide and weighing no more than 60 pounds. Collection of the carpet will occur on a resident’s regularly scheduled garbage day. As a reminder, the City has unlimited garbage collection. Residents are asked to continue to use containers up to 32 gallons in capacity and 60 pounds in weight or one of the City-issued garbage carts. Furniture and appliances are included in the normal collection.
Collection of construction materials such as drywall and lumber will continue to be limited to two 32-gallon containers. Any electronics may be disposed of at the City’s Recycling Drop-Off Center, located at 180 Fort Hill Drive, from 8AM to 4PM on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
For those residents concerned about preventing mold in their homes due to flooding, in addition to general flood clean-up information, please visit the following:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov/mold/, www.epa.gov/iaq/flood/index.html and www.epa.gov/naturaldisasters/flooding.html
Centers for Disease Control (CDC): www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/mold/protect.asp
DuPage County Health Department: http://www.dupagehealth.org/after-the-flood
The interactive map showing all known closed and impassable roadways is continually being updated at www.naperville.il.us as well as the Flood Operations webpage at www.naperville.il.us/floodops.aspx. Up-to-date information is also available on the City’s government access television channel WCNC (Ch. 6 – WOW, Ch. 10 – Comcast, Ch. 99 – AT&T) and through the City’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/NapervilleIL and Twitter account at http://twitter.com/NapervilleIL.
