Title/Name/Summary
Burial of Electric Services Lines - 143rd and LaGrange Road
History
As work advances on the 143rd/LaGrange Road intersection project, staff has discussed with Commonwealth Edison the plan for the relocation of the overhead lines that run the length of this project. Given the type of development planned for this area, including the Main Street Triangle, Orland Crossing and redevelopment along 143rd Street near Marquette Bank, the Village staff recommends an analysis of the cost to bury these service lines to reduce the visual blight. There are two substantial system lines that would need to be relocated.
Although estimates have been provided, in order to advance the analysis of burying the Com Ed lines that run down LaGrange Road from the viaduct to 144th Street and along 143rd Street from the railroad tracks to the entrance at Orland Crossing, Village staff is requesting approval of a payment to Com Ed for engineering services. Once this design work is complete, an accurate depiction of cost for the construction will be provided.
Com Ed originally expressed that they would require payment of 1% of the total engineers’ estimate of the construction cost in order to advance the engineering component of undergrounding projects. The estimate given for this project is $4.6 million for LaGrange Road lines and an additional $1.5 million for the lines along 143rd Street. Com Ed could not be reached to confirm the 1% figure, so the approval figure was slightly increased in case the figure is actually higher.
On June 22, 2009, this item was reviewed and approved by the Finance Committee and referred to the Board for approval. Since then, several conversations have been held with Com Ed staff and the scope of work was further refined. Subsequently, the price for the preliminary engineering work was reduced. ComEd will provide estimates for the following:
143rd Street from the Metra Railroad tracks on the west to the intersection at 143rd/LaGrange Ro...
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