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Yorkville OKs $5.67 million in water main replacements and road work · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville oaks five dollars sixty seven million dollars in water
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  Speaker 1: main replacements and roadwork. Written by Joey Weslow. This article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. Yorkville is beginning its third straight year of
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  Speaker 1: aggressively replacing water mains throughout the city. The twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six water main Improvements project contains more work than typical
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  Speaker 1: years as the city gears up to reach requirements for
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  Speaker 1: the two hundred and twenty four wy four million dollar
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  Speaker 1: Lake Michigan water Project. Around one seventy nine to five
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  Speaker 1: million dollars of those costs are being covered through Illinois
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  Speaker 1: Environmental Protection Agency IEPA loans. The loans require the city
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  Speaker 1: to reduce water loss from things like water main breaks,
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  Speaker 1: pipe leaks, and water inefficiencies. Public Works Director Eric Doucey
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  Speaker 1: said the city is continuing to replace older cast iron
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  Speaker 1: water mains that are prone to breaks and leaks. The
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  Speaker 1: City Council approved a five thousand, two hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 1: five first and four hundred and eight dollars contract for
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  Speaker 1: the work with Winning Your Excavating Ink of Naperville. The
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  Speaker 1: council also approved four hundred nineteen thousand, four hundred ninety
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  Speaker 1: five dollars for engineering services with Engineering Enterprises, Inc. Of
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  Speaker 1: Sugar Grove. The city is applying to receive loan funding
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  Speaker 1: through the IEPA's Public Water Supply Loan Program. According to
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  Speaker 1: city documents, the project is a combination of water infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: work and roadwork. During the project, crews are replacing the
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  Speaker 1: water main that runs along Illinois Route forty seven to
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  Speaker 1: the Penny Lane Apartments. The newly installed water main will
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  Speaker 1: be tied into Colonial Parkway. Workers are also replacing water
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  Speaker 1: mains along Aline Drive, Walter Street, Olson Street, East Ridge Street.
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  Speaker 1: A rear yard water main is being replaced near the
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  Speaker 1: Countryside Subdivision. Water main replacement along Adrian Street, Blaine Street,
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  Speaker 1: and State Street is being pushed back until the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight construction season, when other nearby streets in that
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  Speaker 1: area are slated to undergo water main construction. In total,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty sixth project involves installing around ten forty
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  Speaker 1: feet of ductile iron water maine. Roadwork included in the
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  Speaker 1: project involves curb and gutter removal and replacement, sidewalk removal
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  Speaker 1: and replacement, and roadway resurfacing. Roadway improvements are being undertaken
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  Speaker 1: along Naden Court, BlackBerry Lane, Dixon Court, Palmer Court, Countryside Parkway,
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  Speaker 1: east Ridge Street and Fox Road. Crews will also be
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  Speaker 1: working along Washington Street, Olson Street, Walter Street, Illinois Drive
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  Speaker 1: and Mill Street.