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Prospect Heights council awards CCTV sewer-inspection work and approves high‑definition camera purchase
Summary
The council approved a $164,970 CCTV sewer televising contract with a 10% contingency, a $39,400 scope for GIS integration and project management, and a $118,717.78 purchase of a high‑definition sewer camera to speed diagnosis of underground problems.
The Prospect Heights City Council on June 22 approved a package of public-works contracts intended to update the city’s sanitary‑sewer video records and improve its ability to locate and fix underground problems. Council members voted to award a CCTV sewer‑televising contract to Chicagoland Trenchless Rehabilitation Inc. for $164,970, with a 10% contingency; to authorize Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc. to perform project management and GIS integration for $39,400; and to buy an Envirosight Rover XHT sewer camera package for $118,717.78 through a Sourcewell contract with trade‑in applied.
Mark, a city public‑works representative, told the council the CCTV program began in 2016–17 and that many videos are now 8–9 years old. “We’re going to start doing another televising round, go back through the city and see what we got, and then go after the problems in a triage type fashion,” he said, describing how updated footage will be loaded into the city’s GIS so staff and engineers can quickly locate defects.
Mark said the new Rover camera offers high‑definition video that will reduce reliance on outside vendors to pinpoint collapses or blockages and will support warranty or liability follow‑up against contractors when damage is found. The Gewalt scope covers ingesting vendor footage and preparing it in a format usable by the city’s GIS and engineering teams.
Each item passed on roll call. The council’s vote record shows the motions carried with roll-call approval as recorded in the meeting minutes. Staff said the CCTV work and camera are intended to lower repair costs over time by targeting excavation precisely and by providing a maintainable video archive for future inspections.
The contracts are subject to standard administrative reviews; council members asked no substantive policy changes. The NPDES/stormwater‑related scope with Gewalt Hamilton (a separate resolution approved the same evening) will support compliance and sampling required by federal permit obligations.
