Orland Park trustees recommend engineering, paving and multiuse-path contracts and hear update on 140th Street/John Humphrey intersection

Orland Park Committee of the Whole on March 3 recommended the village board approve several public-works contracts and heard a detailed update on the long-planned improvements at 140th Street and John Humphrey Drive.

Those recommendations included hiring Christopher B. Burke Engineering of Rosemont for engineering and construction oversight of a Crystal Tree subdivision water-main replacement and relining project, awarding a 2025 asphalt pavement patching contract to McGill Construction LLC of Frankfort and approving a contract amendment for final design services on the 160th/167th multiuse path from Steeplechase Parkway to 104th Avenue. Trustees also received a presentation on intersection and bridge work at 140th Street and John Humphrey Drive that is expected to go to construction later this year.

The engineering proposal for the Crystal Tree subdivision calls for Christopher B. Burke Engineering to provide engineering and construction oversight for $263,070, plus a 4 percent contingency of $10,520, for a total not to exceed $273,590. Trustee Gruden moved the recommendation to the village board; the motion passed on roll call with trustees voting aye.

Trustees were told the Crystal Tree subdivision previously received partial water-main relining in February 2016 and February 2019. Staff said repeated breaks in the remaining mains, combined with corrosive soil conditions that have attacked ductile-iron pipe, justify completing…