Oak Avenue Flooding Project on Hold for Good?

Oak Avenue residents have just received a letter from the Village stating that the Oak Avenue flooding project is on hold, until they can procure an acre and a half piece of land where they can dump the water -- that's not the jargon they used, but that's our translation. 

Westcott Park is just two blocks away. There's plenty of acreage there. 

One of our concerns is that the engineers don't seem to know where the flooding occurs, since the picture on the report is not from the 2400 block of Oak Avenue, but the 2500 block of Oak Avenue, which doesn't get flooded. 

NOTE TO ENGINEERS: Using this picture as the cover of your report is not a good sign. Because this is not where Oak Avenue floods. If you'd ever been out to our street during and after a storm, you would know that the street flooding is behind you on the 2400 block. Along with the ongoing yard flooding. And the escalating basement flooding. For those of us who are still pumping out after last week's flood, we can only assume you are making calculations that determine the future of our block based on inaccurate data. 

 Below is a view of the 2400 block of Oak Avenue -- looking toward the 2500 block -- after the June 26 flood. Look carefully in the distance. Do you see flooding in the 2500 block? The correct answer is NO.   

Meanwhile, here's a link to the report on which the decision to postpone [permanently?] was based:

http://www.northbrook.il.us/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=5974

On first reading, it seems as though the consulting engineers have determined that Westcott Street and Maple Avenues -- which are on higher ground a block away from the Oak Avenue flooded street -- have the most flooding. Based on what? 

Neither street had flooding during the June 26 deluge.  However, plenty of water was observed flowing from Maple and Westcott onto Oak Avenue, east of Westcott. But the only evidence of actual flooding, i.e., a nearly impassible street, was on Oak. Homes on Westcott and Maple do not have a history of flooded yards emptying into basements, except for two houses with Westcott addresses which are also on the 2400 block of Oak Avenue. They suffered during the 1990s episode, when the Village raised the grade on new construction and caused weeks of flooding to eight back yards. In fact, historically, there is almost no street flooding on Oak Avenue except in the 2400 block. 

Do any of these consultants actually walk our neighborhoods during a flood? Or do they just crunch numbers?