Road construction season in Brookfield is scheduled to begin on April 19, when crews begin a $287,857 project to widen and resurface the 3200 and 3300 blocks of Oak Avenue.
The project, 84 percent of which is being funded by a grant approved last summer as part of the state capital projects bill, includes widening the street by a total of three feet (1.5 feet on each side), minor sewer repairs and a complete resurfacing with asphalt, according to Village Engineer Derek Treichel.
West Chicago-based Triggi Construction will be the contractor on the project, which is expected to take two months to complete.
Oak Avenue between Garfield and Monroe generally will remain open during construction, except for periods of time during the day. Widening the street will be done on one side at a time to allow residents to park their cars on the street during the construction period.
In early to mid-May, work crews will begin a $694,417 project to resurface Prairie Avenue from the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad tracks to 47th Street. Paid for entirely through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), there will be no cost to the village for the work. The West Central Municipal Conference was responsible for distributing the federal transportation stimulus funds to member communities.
K5 Construction Company of Plainfield was the low bidder for the job, which should be wrapped up by the end of June, according to Treichel. In addition to resurfacing, the work will include minor curb, gutter and sewer replacement.
While Prairie Avenue will remain open during most of the project, Treichel said that there will be two separate two-day shutdowns when crews apply and stripe the new asphalt surface. The road will be closed between Ogden and 47th Street during one of those shutdowns and between Ogden and the tracks during the other. Cars will be rerouted to other streets during those separate shutdown periods, Treichel said.
The northern portion of Prairie Avenue, between the tracks and 31st Street received a complete makeover over a two-year span in 2006 and 2007.
Finally, the Illinois Department of Transportation this summer is scheduled to finish a road resurfacing project of 31st Street between Wolf Road and First Avenue, which was started last year.
Last fall, crews completed patching of rough spots. In the past three weeks, workers marked sections of curb for removal and two weeks ago began removing those sections of curb within Brookfield.
No official word has been given on when the actual resurfacing work will start.