Overnight road closures expected on Washington Street in downtown Naperville as sewer rehab project begins

Rehabilitation of the town’s sanitary sewers began this week on Washington Avenue from Benton Avenue to Jackson Avenue in downtown Naperville.

By means of the top of March, Efficiency Pipelining Inc. of Ottawa will rehab the pipes that join properties and companies to the primary sewer line and set up pipes with caps that present entry to the sewer line so blockages might be eliminated, in accordance with metropolis details about the venture.

As a result of Washington Avenue is a important north-south thoroughfare by way of downtown, the work will happen in a single day from 9 p.m. to six a.m. Monday by way of Friday to attenuate visitors disruptions, metropolis officers stated by way of Naper Notify, the town’s mass communication system.

The venture additionally might require lane reductions at instances, metropolis officers stated.

The sewer work should be accomplished earlier than the subsequent stage of the multiyear downtown streetscape enchancment venture can start.

This summer season, there are plans to rebuild the roads and sidewalks on Washington Avenue between Chicago Avenue and Benton Avenue and on the east facet of Major Avenue simply south of Van Buren Avenue.

No adjustments to the parking alongside Washington Avenue are proposed, in accordance with officers.

Final yr, Major and Webster streets had been reconstructed between Jackson and Jefferson avenues, Jefferson Avenue between Webster and Major streets, and Jackson Avenue between Webster and Washington streets.

That work above and beneath floor concerned eradicating and changing water mains and repair strains, pavement, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, brick pavers and streetlights.

Town additionally added new raised planters, benches and landscaping.

The aim of the streetscape venture is to improve the growing older utilities infrastructure and enhance pedestrian mobility, accessibility, and security for many who go to and reside downtown, officers defined.

And it’s not the one development scheduled downtown this yr.

Reconstruction of the Washington Avenue bridge is anticipated to start this spring.

The bridge, which crosses the DuPage River between Chicago and Aurora avenues, is greater than 40 years previous and so deteriorated that the town needed to limit the scale of automobiles utilizing it to fifteen tons in 2016.

Plans are to demolish and reconstruct the east facet of the span this yr, adopted by the west facet in 2024.

An inspection of the bridge final September confirmed indicators of elevated deterioration, and bridge engineers from the Illinois Division of Transportation directed the town to decrease the posted weight restrict to eight tons and advisable decreasing the bridge to at least one lane in every course, which has been in impact since October.

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