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La Salle approves emergency sewer repair at Bucklin, 5th after 130-year-old line fails · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Lasal approves emergency sewer repair at Buckland Fifth after one
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  Speaker 1: three zero year old line fails. Written by Emily Beebe,
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  Speaker 1: this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. A broken sewer at the intersection
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  Speaker 1: of Buckland and Fifth Streets in LaSalle has left city
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  Speaker 1: officials with no choice but an emergency repair. The Lasal
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  Speaker 1: City Council voted Monday to authorize the emergency repair work
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  Speaker 1: at the intersection after City Engineer Brian Brown told the
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  Speaker 1: Finance Committee that the one three zero year old sewer
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  Speaker 1: line was discovered about three weeks ago during work on
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  Speaker 1: the city water tower. Officials initially believed the leak was
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  Speaker 1: a water main break, but determined after about a week
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  Speaker 1: that the source was sewer. When crews dug into the street,
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  Speaker 1: they discovered that the city sewer maps did not match
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  Speaker 1: what was underground. Nothing is on our maps at all,
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  Speaker 1: on said, Our maps show a sewer from here to here,
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't do that. The twenty four inch sewer
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  Speaker 1: had a hole in the top of the pipe, and
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  Speaker 1: when crews traced the line they found it just deadened,
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  Speaker 1: with no pipe, no clay, and no remnants continuing a
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  Speaker 1: previous repair about five or six years ago had patched
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  Speaker 1: a hole in the top of the pipe, but did
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  Speaker 1: not address the underlying issue. Someone in the nineteen seventies
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  Speaker 1: had run a plastic line through the pipe as a
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  Speaker 1: temporary fix, feeding sewage from one line into another going downhill.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say it's a band aid, Brown said.
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  Speaker 1: About ten to fifteen homes are connected to the sewer
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  Speaker 1: in a low lying area where lines coming deep. The
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  Speaker 1: city has been pumping out the pit and cleaning the line,
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  Speaker 1: but heavy rain causes it to fill and overflow into
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  Speaker 1: a storm drain. At one point, water reached the top
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  Speaker 1: of a thirteen foot man hole. The repair plan involves
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  Speaker 1: installing a new sewer line in the north bound lane
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  Speaker 1: of Buckland Street by passing a lift station, which eliminates
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  Speaker 1: the need for long term maintenance and pump replacement. The
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  Speaker 1: city's consulting engineer, Donohue and Associates advised against adding a
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  Speaker 1: lift station because the goal is to eliminate them, not
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  Speaker 1: add them. This will solve the problem. There's no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: Brown said. The project will be completed on a time
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  Speaker 1: and materials basis because the city cannot wait for it
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  Speaker 1: to go out forbid. Two local contractors will handle the work.
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  Speaker 1: John Power and Son's Company will handle excavating and installing manholes,
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  Speaker 1: and Universal Asphalt and Excavating will handle curb work and paving.
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  Speaker 1: Before the repair can begin, the city needs to verify
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  Speaker 1: the depth of a pipe on the north side of
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  Speaker 1: the Fourth Street Alley, which is scheduled for Thursday. If
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  Speaker 1: the depth is different than expected, the repair plan may
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  Speaker 1: need to be adjusted. Brown estimated they should be about
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  Speaker 1: six to nine inches over the top of the pipe
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  Speaker 1: at the digging location. Once equipment arrives and pipe is ordered,
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  Speaker 1: actual digging is ex expected to take about a week
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  Speaker 1: and a half. Buckland Street will be closed in the
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  Speaker 1: northbound lane during the repair. There are no grants available
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  Speaker 1: for emergency sewer work, and the project is not just
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  Speaker 1: not located in a tiff area, so TIFF funds cannot
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  Speaker 1: be used. The sewer fund is currently at a negative
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  Speaker 1: one hundred twenty thousand dollars and is projected to lose
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  Speaker 1: five hundred thirty one thousand dollars this year. Other city
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  Speaker 1: funds will float the cost until the sewer fund can recover.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at a loss. I don't know what else we
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  Speaker 1: can do. Brown said the city may need to delay
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  Speaker 1: some planned sewer projects to accommodate the emergency repair. City
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  Speaker 1: council members mention possibly delaying a two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars clarifyer project as one potential cost saving measure