Carol Stream preparing to replace streetlights
Carol Stream will launch a two-year program this summer to replace 115 streetlights with new LED lights.
The village board voted this week to approve a $16,500 contract with Geneva-based Rempe-Sharpe & Associates for project engineering services. The firm will complete the design work and prepare bid documents in advance of awarding a construction contract this spring.
The village started a smaller annual program three years ago, replacing about 10 aging streetlights each time. But the program was expanded when the village applied for and received a $350,000 state grant last fall to pay for installing 65 new LED lights.
“The grant came in and we decided to accelerate it,” said Phil Modaff, the village’s director of public works. “It occurred to me we could probably get some economies by clumping it into one large project.”
The grant will cover the cost of phase one of the project, which encompasses replacement of light poles, fixtures, conduit, cabling and related controllers throughout the Spring Valley neighborhood southeast of Army Trail and Fair Oaks roads.
The work should be complete by Oct. 31.
The second phase of the project, expected to take place next year, will replace roughly 50 streetlights in the Western Trails area southeast of Lies and Kuhn roads. That portion of the project is estimated to cost $325,000 and will be funded through the village’s capital improvement program.