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Residents invited to Mt. Prospect meeting on sewer work to relieve flooding

Mount Prospect is holding a neighborhood meeting 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at village hall to present plans for its Isabella Drainage Improvements Project to reduce the risk of flooding in the area.

Village staffers will deliver a brief presentation and answer questions, after which construction drawings will be available for review and staff members will be available to answer additional questions.

A contract for the project was recently awarded to A-Lamp Concrete Contractors of Schaumburg at a price of just under $8.9 million, approximately $1.2 million under the estimated cost.

The project will involve installing a relief sewer to work in combination with the existing sewer system in the Isabella Street residential area.

The main trunk line will run from the deep tunnel in the Menards parking lot west along Isabella Street to Elmhurst Avenue. Sewer pipe will also be installed along many of the intersecting streets, more than doubling the system's drainage capacity in the area.

Those blocks directly impacted by construction will be included in the annual street resurfacing program. The entire width of the street will be replaced with asphalt. Curbs, sidewalks and driveways will be repaired as needed. While the goal is to finish work this year, some of the street resurfacing work may not be completed until 2016.

Work is scheduled to begin in February or March, depending on the weather.

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