TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Beth Beatty, City Manager
SUBJECT:
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Award of Contract for the Spring Creek Phase 1 Water Main Improvements Project to Austin Tyler Construction Inc. in the amount of $7,994,694.14
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BACKGROUND:
On January 5, 2021, the Mayor and City Council approved Resolution No. 7613, committing to water conservation through the reduction of non-revenue water in order to comply with the allocation requirements of the Level of Lake Michigan Act, 615 ILCS 50, and the corresponding State regulations. A condition of the City's Lake Michigan water allocation permit is completion of the City's Non-Revenue Water Reduction Plan. A major component of this Plan is water main replacement. The water main replacement, estimated at approximately 3% per year, must be sufficient to achieve the reduction of non-revenue water from the City's water system to not more than 10 percent by the year 2030.
The 2024 Water Main Replacement Program consists of 18 contracts to replace a total of approximately 33 miles of water main, at an as-bid cost of approximately $83,500,000. The Spring Creek Phase 1 Water Main Improvements Project was identified to be completed as part of this program. The project consists of replacing approximately 14,700 linear feet of water main in various sizes on Garnsey Avenue / Landau Avenue / Henderson Avenue (Ward Avenue to E Jackson Street); Abe Street (end to E Jackson Street); Ward Avenue (Creed Street to Henderson Avenue); Elwood Avenue (Landau Avenue to Abe Street); Columbia Street (Garnsey Avenue to Abe Street); Ohio Street (west of Creek to Landau Avenue); E Jackson Street (Garnsey Avenue to Soland Court); and dead end on CN driveway. This project also includes sanitary sewer work consisting of one (1) point repair. Included in this memo is an exhibit showing the project location.
Also included in the scope of this construction project is lead water service line replacements. If lead water services are encountere...
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