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City manager: West Main reconstruction nearing finish after cost overruns and utility challenges
Summary
City Manager Kevin Varquette updated council on the West Main Street infrastructure project, said the original $3.9 million estimate has grown to more than $10 million, and described remaining work and a tentative late‑October completion window for major items.
City Manager Kevin Varquette briefed the City of Geneva Council on Sept. 22 on progress, costs and remaining work for the West Main Street reconstruction project.
Varquette said the project replaced aging, unstable subsurface utilities under West Main — sanitary and storm lines and more than 80 service laterals — and encountered difficult sandy soils, voids and legacy trolley rails that complicated excavation. He said initial planning estimates put…
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