Part of Montgomery Road to Close for a Week

If you regularly drive Montgomery Road on the village’s east side, you’re going to want to read this.

Montgomery Road will be closed to through traffic from Hill Avenue to Douglas Road for emergency sewer repair, starting on Wednesday. The repairs, to be performed on the Pleasant Place sanitary sewer line, are expected to take seven days, according to Mike Pubentz, the village’s director.

Westbound traffic will be detoured south on Hill Avenue to Goodwin Drive, to Route 30 west, then to Douglas Road north and back to Montgomery Road. Eastbound traffic will take the same detour in reverse. Only local traffic to Pleasant Place will be allowed through.

Village officials have been planning this repair for a month, since discovering an alignment and blockage problem in the system. Kane County owns Montgomery Road, and has requested that the sewer work be completed before the county resurfaces the street this spring. So the village had to move quickly.

They solicited for bids on April 9, received seven of them, opened them on April 20, and awarded the project Neslund and Associates of North Aurora on April 23. Neslund will receive $50,010 for performing the repairs—about 12 percent less than the original engineer’s estimate of $57,000.

The work involves removing and replacing about 75 feet of sewer pipe, and testing the new pipes for blockages.

Montgomery Road has seen its share of drainage issues—standing water whenever it rains, which doesn’t drain off like it should. This spring’s resurfacing is the short-term solution to those problems, but the long-term solution is a widening project. The village is working with Kane County to accomplish this sometime in the next 10 years.

For more on the eventual widening project, read .