After eyeing sewer repairs for years, the Village Board approved moving forward with two water repair projects at its June 6 meeting.
The first project will line 6,200 feet of sewer pipe along Aptasksic Road while also adding a sewer lining to a stretch near the Sparrow Ridge subdivision.
The village began looking into the work in 2017 and opened bids in late May this year. The village got four bids, with the lowest coming from Insituform Technologies, a Missouri company. The project is expected to cost no more than $2.1 million, though the village had budgeted $2.5 million for the lining work, according to village documents related to the construction work.
Public Works Director Mike Brown thanked the board for the approval vote.
“I appreciate, as always, the support on the Village Board as far as implements go,” he said.
Brown said the work should begin next month and wrap up by the fall.
Trustee Marc Spacone said repairing infrastructure is a necessary cost to any village.
“The money spent now saves us money spent down the line,” he said.
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Spacone said that if the sewer lines collapse due to age, then the village would be out more money in emergency repairs.
Mayor Tom Poynton said residents should notice better water flow through the sewers.
“We should have some free-flowing sewers,” Poynton said of the lining program.
The second project trustees approved at the meeting calls for replacing part of the village’s water main infrastructure in Flint Creek Estates. This project is capped at $1.3 million and the work will be done by Mauro Sewer Construction.
“The proposed project includes the installation of approximately 3,350 linear feet of PVC 8-inch water main pipe, fire hydrants, valves, and connections to the existing water main and water services, including installation of a water main loop on Lancaster Lane and Manchester Court,” Spacone said at the meeting. “The work will be located under the pavement and sidewalk requiring extensive asphalt patching and landscape restoration upon completion.”
Brown told the board the village has had issues “over the last 20 years or so” with the underground infrastructure there.
“I think we’ve had a [water main] break or two a year, averaging over the last 20 years or so.”
He said he expects this project will also be done by winter.
Jesse Wright is a freelancer.