Thank you for reporting this incident to the City of St. Charles. Our Facilities Maintenance Division has been notified about this request it has been scheduled to be reviewed. We appreciate your help in improving our City!

This is a terrible way and place to drain water or whatever is being splashed onto the alley between city hall and Main Street. The alley is busy enough without this terrible looking rig dumping whatever out onto it.

Thank you for reporting your concern on SeeClickFix. During significant rainfall, stormwater runoff exceeds the garage drainage system’s discharge capacity. This piping was installed to intercept and divert stormwater runoff from the upper levels of the City Hall Parking Garage to the alley and adjacent storm water collection points. The Director of Public Works is assessing the issue for additional solutions.

This is a terrible way to deal with drainage problems--it looks like a sewer dumping into the alley.

Agreed. This should NOT be a long-term drainage solution. There has to be a better method (than depicted in the photo) to divert water from the garage.

This was not thought through . Aside from being a really poor and illegal way for anyone except the city to handle waste water this slipshod solution will produce a giant ice sheet over one of the busiest alleys in town when we have the freeze & thaw of winter.
Surely there is an interior access to the storm drains that was engineered into the building or one of the rebuilds.

Riverroad, we appreciate your feedback, concerns and comments. As was stated above, this pipe is a downspout for rainwater, not unlike what other buildings use across the City. There are medical facilities, retail establishments, insurance agencies, restaurants and other government buildings that discharge rainwater onto much busier streets and sidewalks. Should this become an issue this winter, our Facilities Division will investigate. This item is now closed. Again, your comments and reports are of great assistance to the City. We thank you for using SeeClickFix.