Edgewood Drive On Track for Road Project

One of the village’s arguably worse roadways, in the Highlands of Algonquin subdivision, is getting fixed this summer.

It has taken the village years to work through a complicated web involving property rights to get the project on track.

Algonquin needed agreements from homeowners to do work on their property because the village never received utility easements in the subdivision.

Some neighbors were reluctant to turn over easements so the village could do sewer and road repairs because the work would come so close to their homes, according to residents who have appeared before the village board over the last few months.

Algonquin has obtained enough easements to do the work, Assistant Public Works Director Michele Zimmerman said.

There are a couple of neighbors who did not sign easement agreements, but crews will be able to work around the properties, she said.

Bidding for the road project will begin in June and take about a month, Zimmerman said. The roadwork should be completed in two or three months.

Public Works will also hire an asphalt consultant to look into the type of asphalt mix the village uses, Zimmerman said. The mix Algonquin currently is using causes premature failure of the road so the consultant will look at changing the asphalt mix and trying it on the Highlands project, she said.