Palatine, IL Environmental Rules: Erosion Control (2026)

The Village folded its erosion-control standard into the regional Cook County Watershed Management Ordinance rather than write numeric limits of its own. Appendix B Section 6.09(a) states that development needing a watershed management permit under Section 201 of the county ordinance must comply with Article 4 of that ordinance, the reservoir of the numeric erosion-and-sediment control standards developers actually build to. Appendix A Section 4.12 broadens the trigger: any excavation, earth-moving, or site development in the village, not only projects needing a county permit, is made subject to the rules and regulations of the Erosion and Sedimentation Control Ordinance found in the Village subdivision regulations, the same Article 4 standard folded back into Appendix B.

Appendix B Section 2.01 defines the paperwork required: an erosion and sedimentation control plan is the site-development document listing every erosion and sediment control measure needed to protect the site throughout all phases of construction, and the code separately defines erosion control practice and erosion and sediment control practice as the physical measures that stabilize soil and intercept runoff. Compliance is checked at the same point other site-development plans are reviewed: Appendix B Article VIII requires the developer's design engineer to be on-site during construction and to notify the Village Engineering Department at least 48 hours before any underground or surface work begins.

Chapter 8's general enforcement tools apply once a permit issues: Section 8-207 lets the Village Manager issue a stop-work order for departing from any ordinance or code of the village, covering a site that fails to run its erosion-control plan, with continued noncompliance escalating to the fine schedule under Section 8-208.