Title
Additional Water Main Relocation Engineering, 179th Street & Southwest Highway - Proposal
History
In 2013 the Village was made aware that IDOT was initiating engineering to improve the intersection of Southwest Highway (US Route 6) at 179th Street / Brookhill Drive. This reconstruction is designed to align and add traffic signals. In 2014 Village staff was informed that water main in the area was in conflict with the design of the proposed improvement. At that time, the Board approved utilizing HR Green of New Lenox, Illinois to perform the engineering design and permitting for the water main relocation. The engineering and permits were completed in 2015.
Due to other utility conflicts the project was delayed for redesign. Recently, IDOT finalized the intersection layout and agreed to include our water main relocation in their project. They previously required that we bid the water main relocation as a separate project and construct it ourselves. With their redesign of the intersection they have agreed to incorporate the water main relocation construction into the intersection improvement. The redesign of the intersection and water main should result in more than $60,000 in savings for the water main construction.
The redesign of the intersection requires the Village to revise the water main relocation engineering and permits for this work in an expedited manner. Public Works contacted HR Green to provide a proposal for the additional engineering and permitting work required for the intersection reconfiguration. Their proposal, at a cost not to exceed $6,770.00, was determined to be of good value. Because of the extremely tight timeframe in which to complete this work, HR Green was given authorization to initiate work immediately.
This agenda item is being considered by the Public Works Committee and the Village Board of Trustees on the same night.
Financial Impact
Funds for this work are available in the Water and Sewer Budget.
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