Most Road Work to be Finished in Two Weeks

It's been a long summer of zigging and zagging through narrow lanes on Lake Drive, but the orange barrels are expected to disappear in about two weeks.

Crews have spent  digging up the roadway from Woodburn Street to Bartlett Avenue and installing a new water main and new service laterals. The water main portion of the project is complete, and crews are currently paving, with the hope of opening the road Sept. 16.

Crews will pave the west side of the road first, and on Tuesday, they will switch traffic onto that portion of the roadway while they pave the east side of the roadway.

In other road construction projects around the village:

• Sylvan Avenue is complete, but the roadway will not be open to thru-traffic until landscaping is complete on Sept. 19. Crews installed water, storm sewer and sanitary sewer on the street from Idlewild to Marlborough.

• Storm sewer construction on Lancaster Avenue is expected to be completed next week. The road is under construction from Shoreland Avenue to Lydell Avenue, and the road is expected to be fully opened in the latter half of the month once the road is resurfaced as part of the village's road resurfacing project.

• Sanitary sewer work on Berkeley Boulevard will be delayed due to poor ground conditions. Sewer work has been completed on the 4700 block, and all landscaping work will be completed by next week. On the 4800 block, sewer work will be finished the week of Sept. 19, and all of the restoration work will be completed by Oct. 3. On the 4900 block, sewer work will begin the week of Sept. 19, and restoration work will be completed by the week of Nov. 8.

• Storm sewer work is finished in the 5500 and 5600 blocks of Berkeley Boulevard.

• Parking lot lights are up and running in both , and the landscaper will be in next week to touch up the landscaping.

• Other asphalt paving projects will begin in mid-September and last approximately two weeks. Streets included in include Lydell Avenue, from Monrovia Avenue to Devon Street; Bay Ridge Avenue, from Lakeview Avenue to Montclaire Avenue; Kent Avenue, from Lakeview Avenue to Montclaire Avenue; Hollywood Avenue, from Henry Clay Street to Fairmount Avenue; Bartlett Drive, from Fairmount Avenue to Chateau Place; and Lancaster Avenue, from Santa Monica Boulevard to Lydell Avenue.

• The village's street light project has begun and is expected to be finished by mid-October. All F series street lights south of Hampton will be replaced from Woodburn Street to Oakland Avenue.

For more information about road construction in the village, visit the village's website.