ELBURN
Project to disrupt some water service
Seventeen households on 1st Street will find themselves without running water at various times during the next few weeks during a water and sewer reconstruction project, Public Works Director Art Sanchez said.
The $700,000 project will remove an old 4-inch water main and transfer home connections to an existing 12-inch water main across the street. Each transfer should take two or three hours, Sanchez noted.
“We’re doing each connection transfer separately so we don’t disrupt everybody at once,” he said.
Workers also will replace a 12-inch storm sewer with a 54-inch storm sewer to help prevent floods on the northeast side such as the one the northwest side experienced last month. A separate sewer project to alleviate northwest side flooding is being planned, Sanchez said.
“We’re trying to respond to the growth of the village, especially on the northeast side because that’s where a lot of our new construction is happening,” he added.
Work should continue until late November. Just under $300,000 of the project’s cost will be paid for with state motor fuel tax revenues, Sanchez said.
— Denise Linke
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Village won’t build 3 planned streets
Trustees on Monday voted to vacate three unbuilt street rights-of-way in the village’s far northeastern corner and to annex a house whose owner will get half of one of the street segments.
The unbuilt rights-of-way of Cumnor Avenue south of Ellynwood Drive, Scott Avenue south of Clifton Avenue, and all of Harvey Street, which were platted in 1924, will be vacated and deeded to four adjacent homeowners in the area south of Crescent Boulevard and east of Roger Road.
The Village Board annexed much of the heavily wooded neighborhood in 2002.
Glen Ellyn will not charge the four landowners for the vacated street rights-of-way because no additional buildable lots could be created after they are vacated.
One unincorporated property owner whose land fronts one of the rights-of-way on Scott Avenue is annexing his land to the village so the unbuilt stretch of Scott next to his property can be vacated to him.
This is because Glen Ellyn traditionally has vacated rights-of-way only to adjoining properties that are inside village limits.
— Bob Goldsborough