This message from the Village of Lakewood to residents of the part of Lakewood between Crystal Lake the Crystal Lake Country Club:

In the Gates area – please reduce water usage.

Storm update from Public Works:

As of 3:30 am Saturday April 18th 2026 the Broadway sanitary pump station is at 13.4 feet with both pumps running at 100%.

The station is on generated power and will remain on generated power until levels are reduced to normal condition of 3.5 Feet.

Public Works staff set up the Riverside storm pump at approx. 2am this morning to pump  storm water from the manhole at Riverside and Broadway directly to Crystal Creek.

Broadway and Hampshire roadways are flooded along with other low areas of the 400 block areas in the gates.

Broadway lift station went into high level (6.5 feet) at 9:30pm, by 10:00 pm the wet well level climbed to 9.0 feet at 4:00 am this morning levels have stabilized at 13.4 feet all of this with both pumps running at max speed.

The entire gates area should be on reduced usage until we get levels down to below 6.5 feet