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the Lockport Legend | August 9, 2018 | 5
Lockport City Council
City approves waste water treatment deal with Homer Glen
Jessie Molloy
Freelance Reporter
The Lockport City Council
appointed a new member
to the Planning & Zoning
Commission and cleared
the final hurdle for Homer
Glen’s long-awaited sanitary
sewer project during its Aug.
1 meeting.
During a brief City Council
meeting, the council voted
unanimously, minus the vote
of absent alderwoman Catherine
Perretta, to approve
Mayor Steve Streit’s appointee
to the Planning & Zoning
Commission. Janine Wheeler,
who lives and owns commercial
property in Lockport,
is to take the place of Jim
Bilotta on the commission.
Bilotta recently relocated to
Frankfort and resigned his
position on the commission.
Wheeler is to complete Bilotta’s
term, which expires on
April 1, 2019.
The Council also voted
unanimously to approve the
Intergovernmental Agreement
between the City, the
Village of Homer Glen, and
the Bonnie Brae Sanitary
District for waste water treatment
services for the soonto-be-constructed
Fiddyment
Creek Sanitary sewer.
Homer Glen has been
working on developing the
project, which is to provide
city water and sanitary sewers
to the area bound by
159th Street and 151st Street
between Gougar Road and
the Glenview Walk Estates
Subdivision, for more than
10 years. The agreement was
approved by both the sanitary
district and the Homer Glen
Village Board on July 25,
and guarantees services for
the sewer by the Bonnie Brae
treatment plant. The Sanitary
District is to bill Homer Glen
for the water treatment and
the Village will be responsible
for billing the appropriate
residents.
With the approval of the
City Council this week, the
agreement is final and construction
in Homer Glen will
be cleared to commence. The
project is to be completed in
2019.
In addition to the intergovernmental
agreement, the
City Council also approved
a purchase for another of
the city’s water treatment facilities
as part of the consent
agenda.
The council voted to approve
a $24,959 purchase of
a replacement heater in the
North Plant’s Gravity Belt
Thickener Room.
According to Public Works
Director Brent Cann, the
equipment in questions is
about 30 years old and was
becoming costly to maintain.
It was deemed more efficient
to replace the machinery
rather than continue with the
repair and maintenance expenses.
The consent agenda also
gave approval to two roadwork
projects. The council
approved a contract for
$107,924 to Christopher
Burke Engineering to provide
professional engineering services
for Phase II of the 2018
Roadway Resurfacing and
Reconstruction project, as
well as a $326,700 contract
with Strand Associates for
design and engineering services
for the East 2nd Street
to East 5th Street Roadway
and Water Main improvements
project.
Cann also discussed an
additional roadwork project
during the Committee of the
Whole Meeting. Given the
cost saving’s the City accumulated
during the early
phases of the State Street
streetscaping project this
summer, Cann proposed adding
an extra segment to the
work for this year.
The project in questions
would be to complete the
streetscaping work on 9th
Street between the railroad
crossing and State Street.
This segment of road is already
being resurfaced in
conjunction with replacing
its water and sewer lines.
Cann and City Administrator
Ben Benson said it makes
sense to do this segment now
as long as the funds are available
so none of the work being
done now would need to
be redone in a year or two,
and residents and businesses
would not have to deal with
multiple periods of construction.
The full streetscaping,
which would allow the section
of road to match the
rest of the project area along
State Street from 8th to 10th
streets and include new curbs
on the portion of road, would
cost $591,000. This figure is
higher than the original estimated
cost of $400,000 to
$450,000, for the project, but
also includes the removal and
replacement of a stone wall
and staircase on the northwest
corner of State and 9th
streets.
There was some debate
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