Title/Name/Summary
Colette Highlands Park Site - Stockpile Removal and Re-Grading
History
This is a follow up to the previous discussion regarding the removal of the earth stockpile on the Colette Highlands townhome park site along Park Station Boulevard. On October 5, 2009, the Board of Trustees voted 3-1 to enter into an agreement with Huguelet Construction Co. and T.J. Cachey Builders, Inc. II to share the cost of the stockpile removal, not to exceed $70,560, and to accept Silvestri Paving as the low bidder and waive the bidding process; and to amend the budget of the Expenditure Budget line in the amount of $70,560 and the Revenue Budget line in the amount of $47,040.
The Board of Trustees did request a report back from staff regarding the possibility of depositing the excess park fill at a wetland location on 153rd St., between the Village dump/materials storage site and the Village soccer fields adjoining the 153rd St. Metra Station. The Village’s consulting engineer, Christopher B. Burke Eng. Ltd. (“CBBEL”), has completed an initial investigation of the site and believes this wetland will fall under the US Army Corp of Engineers jurisdiction. To properly pursue wetland filling at this location, a jurisdictional determination (“JD”) request would be filed with the Corps. The JD issuance time is typically three months. Given how this wetland is situated with respect to drainage, CBBEL is quite certain the Corps would declare the wetland to be under Corps jurisdiction. Therefore a permit from the Corps would be required prior to filling. It typically takes several months, possibly a year to obtain this permit. This would delay the removal of the dirt, at its current location, into the 2010 year; after the local residents have been assured this would be completed in 2009.
Coincidentally, another possibility to locally dispose of the fill has arisen. The owner of the adjoining Colette Highlands commercial parcel, south of the Village Park site, is...
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