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Mount Carmel council approves water-meter purchase, OKs $485,000 College Drive repaving; honors dispatchers after flood rescues
Summary
The Mount Carmel City Council voted to buy 500 new water meters and passed Resolution 713 to repave College Drive using roughly $485,000 in Rebuild Illinois funds. Council also recognized public-safety telecommunicators after dispatchers helped coordinate rescues during recent flooding.
The Mount Carmel City Council on April 2025 voted to approve a purchase of new automated water meters and passed a resolution to repave College Drive, and it recognized 9-1-1 telecommunicators for their role in recent flood rescues.
Council approved a contract to install 500 new water meters and associated infrastructure at a noted price of $214,009.50, funded from the city's utility fund. The council also adopted Resolution 713 to repave College Drive from Thirteenth Street to Park Road, authorizing approximately $485,000 in work to be paid largely from previously awarded Rebuild Illinois funds.
The meter purchase is intended to replace aging equipment and reduce manual reads. “We currently have about a thousand offline right now that we're having to manually read,” a city staff member said during the meeting. Staff said the recommended purchase includes equipment, infrastructure and vendor setup. The replacement plan…
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