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the New Lenox Patriot | February 1, 2018 | 3<br />
New Lenox Village Board<br />
Village could have land deal for future site of wastewater treatment plant<br />
Megann Horstead<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
The New Lenox Village<br />
Board of Trustees took steps<br />
Jan. 22 at its regular meeting<br />
to work toward securing<br />
land off of Delaney Road to<br />
house the Village’s future<br />
wastewater treatment plant.<br />
At approximately 80<br />
acres, the two parcels in<br />
question will move the Village’s<br />
dialogue forward on<br />
infrastructure concerns.<br />
The site is currently owned<br />
by Hartz Construction Co.,<br />
Inc. and a sale is pending in<br />
the next two to three months.<br />
“This is good news,”<br />
Mayor Tim Baldermann<br />
said. “This is something that<br />
we, as a board, talked about<br />
in our strategic plan session<br />
wanting to find some property<br />
where we can build a<br />
regional wastewater treatment<br />
plant, which once constructed<br />
will give us the ability<br />
to take plants I and II and<br />
convert them to pumping<br />
stations, which, of course,<br />
are at Route 30 and Cedar<br />
[Road] and also in Jackson<br />
Branch.”<br />
In related development,<br />
the Village is doing its due<br />
diligence to get phase I environmental<br />
site assessment<br />
performed. The Board of<br />
Trustees moved to approve<br />
a $1,500 proposal extended<br />
by Environmental Group<br />
Services, Ltd. to satisfy this<br />
aim.<br />
A new regional plant is estimated<br />
to cost $55 million.<br />
It was the Village’s original<br />
intent only to expand<br />
wastewater treatment plant<br />
No. 2, but further research<br />
led them to consider going<br />
after a regional site, as<br />
wastewater treatment plant<br />
No. 1 needs upgrades and is<br />
getting to the end of its lifespan.<br />
Around that time, the Village<br />
was anticipating an<br />
estimated $20 million cost<br />
to expand wastewater treatment<br />
plant No. 2.<br />
Village Administrator<br />
Kurt Carroll said it is a savings<br />
in the long run, but it<br />
costs more upfront.<br />
Last year’s sales tax and<br />
water and sewer fees are intended<br />
to cover the Village’s<br />
new debt acquired to construct<br />
the new regional plant.<br />
Baldermann said the site<br />
of the Route 30 and Cedar<br />
Road wastewater treatment<br />
plants do not currently align<br />
with the Village’s planning<br />
efforts.<br />
“There is some residential<br />
Round it up<br />
A brief recap of action and discussion of the<br />
New Lenox Village Board of Trustees Jan. 22:<br />
• Officials created a Class SE liquor<br />
license for the New Lenox Lions Club’s<br />
mystery dinner fundraiser to be held Feb.<br />
10 at the Lions Community Center.<br />
• Trustees approved a surety release<br />
valued at $59,282.50 toward Hibernia<br />
Estates Unit 2 for completing public<br />
improvements in accordance with<br />
the Village-approved plans and<br />
[properties] over there, but<br />
it’s the center of our community<br />
and it’s a business area,”<br />
Baldermann said. “That will<br />
give us the opportunity to<br />
really eliminate the odor issues<br />
and all the other problems<br />
that have plagued those<br />
areas.”<br />
Wastewater treatment<br />
plant No. 2 can currently<br />
specifications.<br />
• A surety release was approved in<br />
the amount of $191,071.30 for public<br />
improvements completed to Prairie<br />
Crossings.<br />
• A motion was passed to grant a surety<br />
release valued at $166,713.16 for public<br />
improvements completed to Windermere<br />
Lakes Unit 2.<br />
• A surety release of $17,602.30 was<br />
approved for public improvements<br />
completed toward Leigh Creek South.<br />
take in three-quarters of a<br />
million gallons of sewage,<br />
and wastewater treatment<br />
plant No. I can take in another<br />
two-and-half million<br />
gallons.<br />
The Village has been<br />
working with an engineering<br />
consultant firm, Strand<br />
Associates, Inc., and the Illinois<br />
Environmental Protection<br />
Agency to address<br />
matters related to the sewage<br />
treatment plants.<br />
“Working with the Illinois<br />
EPA, which have been great<br />
to work with throughout this<br />
process, it will save us some<br />
money on the front end of<br />
not having to make as costly<br />
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