Oswego sewer project about 50% complete

Contractors for the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District are proceeding with the installation of sanitary sewer lines in Oswego's Cedar Glen Subdivision and a portion of the Windcrest Subdivision located east of Ill. Route 25, north of Waubonsie Creek.

Jeff Humm, Fox Metro engineering supervisor, estimated the project is currently about 50 percent complete.

Jim Detzler, Fox Metro Board president who lives along Route 25 at the entrance to Cedar Glen, said Monday he and other Fox Metro officials understand the construction is an inconvenience for homeowners in the two subdivisions and their continuing patience is appreciated by Fox Metro and the contractors.

"It will be a real nice improvement once all the work is completed," Detzler said.

Humm said sewer lines have been installed in the right-of-way along Elmwood Drive, Oaklawn Avenue and Evergreen and Glendale drives.

"We've also done Ashlawn (Avenue) from Elmwood up to Eastway (Drive)," he said.

Still yet to be completed, Humm said, is the old portion of the Windcrest Subdivision up to Windcrest Drive near the south end of the project area, and Eastway and Cebold drives on the north end.

Humm added that if weather conditions permit, contractors should have all of the sewer lines installed by the end of June and the streets resurfaced in July. Final landscaping would then be installed in August, he said.

Fox Metro hired Len Cox & Sons Excavating of Joliet to complete the project at a total cost of $1,892,867 last spring and the firm began work in September.

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

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Oswego sewer project about 50% complete