In order to repair a water main, Illinois American Water has closed one southbound lane of Neil Street at Eureka Street. The lane closure began on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 and will reopen by Friday, October 12, 2012. Southbound traffic will be reduced to one lane in the area. All efforts will be made to…
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A&R Services continues to work on the streetscape along the front of the City Building. Last week, they successfully replaced an old sanitary sewer service that crossed the work area. The line was badly deteriorated, and it was fortunate that we were able to replace it before the new sidewalk was poured. The contractor has…
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Last week, we were able to construct approximately 2255 LF of Fourth Street before the rains stopped the paving operations. Stark Excavating was able to complete the final 1790 LF of the southbound lane of Fourth Street on Tuesday. Stark Excavating will now begin working on connecting the Fourth Street pavement to St. Mary’s Road….
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Cross Construction has completed the silt removal project at Healey Street Basin. Some of the items completed include: 1) Approximately 60 truck loads or 358 C.Y. of silt material was removed from the south half of the basin. Silt material in the north half of the basin is minimal and removal is not considered cost…
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This project was awarded at the July 5 City Council meeting and consists of rehabilitating various sanitary sewers and appurtenances located throughout the City. It includes a total of approximately 800 lineal feet of new sanitary sewer installed by Horizontal Directional Drilling in the south 500 block of Lynn Street neighborhood and “upsizing” approximately 280…
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As part of the ongoing City efforts to elicit public comments on the West Washington Street Drainage Improvements, a meeting was held on-site at Glenn Park on September 27 to allow nearby residents to see and discuss several concept plans for the proposed Glenn Park Detention basin facilities. City staff along with the project consultant…
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On Saturday, October 20, from 9 to 11:30 a.m., the City of Champaign and the University of Illinois Extension will be holding a tree walk along University Avenue. This location will provide participants with the opportunity to view over 45 trees both common and uncommon to Champaign in a three block area. The walk will…
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Eden Project According to McShane Construction, underground structural work is now complete. Vertical construction is beginning, starting with the eight-story tower at SE corner of Church and State. City sidewalk along Church St adjacent to this property will be closed for three to four weeks as the contractor expects the crane to swing over this…
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City Staff held two meetings at the Library to attract stakeholders (nearby home owners) for the proposed Robinson Court and Glen Park detention facilities and had about two or three people attend each meeting. The purpose of the meetings was to gain input from stakeholders on the appearance and function of the detention basins. The…
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On September 27, the City of Champaign and Integrys Energy are mailing a second wave of opt-out letters to residential and small commercial customers who have established new accounts with Ameren since the initial mailing in July. These new customers will be automatically enrolled in the Municipal Electric Aggregation (MEA) program unless they take action…
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