Engineering FAQ

City Ordinance allows it, but if the City has to do any street or utility work in this area and has to cut your driveway, it will only be replaced with asphalt.

Properties located outside the sanitary sewer service area are served by conventional, mound, A+ Systems or holding tanks.  Information is available in the Engineering Department or with the Ozaukee County Department of Planning, Resources and Land Management  (262) 284-8270 or (262) 238-8313.

Ordinances require that downspouts be located no closer to a property line than ten feet. However, if your neighbor's house is higher in elevation, no change will be made to the situation even if they are ten feet away.  It is generally our determination that the lower or downstream property owner has the responsibility to protect their property with a properly graded swale, leading to an acceptable area.

There are hundreds of miles of roadside ditches throughout the City.  Due to time constraints, our evaluation checklist helps us to determine priorities for further City action.  Typically, we will act on a complaint basis only, unless the highway patrol determines that a problem is severe enough for immediate action.  Otherwise based on the evaluation checklist, the project is added to the Highway Divisions schedule of  projects, where it will be done when those deemed higher priority have been completed first.

The area surrounding the road, dedicated for roads, drainage, and utilities.  Usually the area of road right-of-way extends approximately 30 feet from the center of the road for residential streets.  For exact right-of-way widths, call (262) 236-2934.

The Engineering Department is responsible for reviewing and approving the road, sanitary sewer, grading/drainage, stormwater management, and erosion control plans for compliance with the City’s Standard Specifications for Land Development.  During construction the Engineering Department is responsible for ensuring the subdivision and/or commercial development is constructed as approved.

The City allows systems approved by the Wisconsin Administrative Code, which includes conventional, Mound,  and A+4 mounds.  Holding tanks are permitted on a limited basis.

A permit is required when any filling or excavating is done on a site and must first be obtained from the Engineering Department on at https://www.ci.mequon.wi.us/publicworks/page/fillberm-permit-application

If the City has a copy of one on file, it would be in the assessor’s office. If you live in a platted subdivision, plats are available in the Engineering Department. Certified Survey Maps (CSM’s) are also on file at the Ozaukee County Register of Deeds Office