Street work underway in Cedar Glen, Windcrest

Contractors for the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District are grinding and patching rough spots on roads in Oswego's Cedar Glen and Windcrest subdivisions this week.

Beginning next week, contractors will install an asphalt overlay on the streets in the two subdivisions if weather conditions permit, Jeff Humm, engineering supervisor for the agency, said Monday.

Over the past year the two subdivisions located east of Ill. Route 25 and north of Waubonsie Creek, have been a construction zone as contractors have installed sanitary sewer lines in the right-of-way adjoining the streets.

Fox Metro hired Len Cox & Sons of Crest Hill last year to complete the project at a total cost of $1,892,867.

The agency is financing the project through a low interest loan obtained from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

The agency undertook the project to make sanitary sewer service available to approximately 190 homes in the two subdivisions that have been served by private septic systems since the 1960s.

If their septic systems are functioning properly, Humm said homeowners are not required to hook up to the new sanitary sewer lines.

However, Humm said, homeowners will be required to connect to the new sewer lines in the future when their septic systems require repair or replacement. The Kendall County Health Department, he said, does not issue permits for repair work or replacement of septic systems if a public sanitary sewer system is available.

Many Cedar Glen and Windcrest homeowners have already decided to disconnect their septic systems and connect to the new sanitary sewer lines.

As of last Sept. 28, 50 homeowners had connected to the new sanitary sewer lines and six more connections are pending, Humm said.

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Street work underway in Cedar Glen, Windcrest