The public works department in Grantfork has one full-time and one part-time employee. Phil Decker is the head of the department. The department maintains the water system, which delivers water to over 700 customers. It also maintains the sewer system and the 2.5 miles of road within Grantfork. Additional duties include day-to-day village upkeep like mowing and maintenance and holiday displays.  

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DeDe Geiger-Loman and Sandy Nissan handle water billing and can be reached at 675-3400, extension 2 or at waterbilling@grantforkil.gov.

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2019 annual water quality report is available here. 

 

Republic Trash and Recycling Services

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Each year, customers of Republic Services can schedule a bulk pickup day at their convenience. For more information, click here. To see a 2020 pickup schedule, click here. 

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Be a more efficient recyler! Please see this handout and video from Republic Services to help them continue to provide low-cost, convenient recycling services.

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Highland Silver Lake Watershed Projects

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Click here to see if you are in the watershed and to see an application. 

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A sign-up period is now open for landowners in the Highland Silver Lake watershed to apply for funding from a cost share program through HeartLands Conservancy to install watershed improvement projects.

 

The watershed is the 30,688-acre area in eastern Madison County and western Bond County that drains to Silver Lake. This area includes the City of Highland, the Village of Grantfork, and small portions of New Douglas and Old Ripley.

 

The cost share program is made possible through a $450,000 "319" grant awarded by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to HeartLands Conservancy to reduce non-point source pollution in the watershed.

 

HeartLands Conservancy is seeking landowners to sign up to install projects that will improve water quality, using the grant funds and funds from the City of Highland as a cost share.

 

The following project types are eligible for funding:

 

• Cover crops/Green manure

• Grassed waterways

• Nutrient Management Plans

• Ponds/Wetlands

• Shoreline stabilization

• Stream channel and streambank stabilization

• Water and Sediment Control Basins (WASCOBs)

• Woodland improvement

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