2024 - Public Works Annual Report

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• Initiated design for a subdivision at the old Drewry's Brewery location that would provide over 100 new units of infill housing. • Completed Safe Routes to School project at Our Lady of Hungary School, providing accessible pedestrian infrastructure at 62 properties in the neighborhood. • Completed design of Safe Route to School project at Muessel Primary School/Holy Cross School to be bid in 2025 and completed in 2026. • Updated the Right of Way and Alley vacation petition process to increase transparency for residents. • Completed Leeper Avenue (East Bank Trail) deck replacement • Installed 100 Snow Route signs throughout the city • Regraded alley off of Jefferson between Franklin PI and S Williams St to improve drainage issues for adjacent properties • Extended the life of roads by microsurfacing Scenic Drive, Mayfair Place and Edison Avenue between Western Avenue and Sample Street. • Began demo and remodel on the new City Hall, which should be move-in ready August 2025. • Installed new watermain and water service lines for 83 residents on Gladstone Avenue. Crews are replacing lead service lines. Additional installations of new water main and water service lines are expected in 2025 for over 300 properties on Indiana Avenue, Randolph Street, and Dayton Street. • Stormwater improvements along with separation was completed in the Bercliff Estates subdivision. • Stormwater improvements were completed at the Johson and Fellows intersection. • Stormwater improvements are under design for Garland Circle and Harrow Drive, and preliminary studies are in progress for separation in the Lathrop to Bergan area west of Portage Ave. • Asset Management Plans were drafted for Water and Wastewater Utilities. • Design was started for the Edison Water Treatment Plant improvements as an effort to increase the reliability of this plant to prepare for other improvements within water facilities. • Facility improvements and site restoration were completed on the Northwest Elevated Tank. • The North Water Treatment Plant's Improvement project was completed, and the plant was brought back online with new media in all six vessels along with raw and finish water head replacements. • As a result of an emergency repair, the Edison Lift Station has electrical updates, pump refurbishment, wet well cleaning, discharge head cleaning, and upstream pipe replacements. Solid Waste • Picked up 65,751,760 lbs of trash in 2024.