Princeville updated on projects

By ANDY LATORA
For The Weekly Post

PRINCEVILLE – Chad Gardner likely reached his pitch count Monday night at the Princeville Board of Trustees meeting at Village Hall.

Gardner, Princeville’s superintendent of public works, updated the board on the progress of projects underway in the village. The update was lengthy, but for good reason.

Gardner had been absent from the twice-a-month board meetings for a bit since he’s also the softball coach at Princeville High School.

Since the Lady Princes’ season concluded recently, Gardner was available to provide information on the progress of, for example, the village’s wastewater treatment plant and sewer system improvements.
“The pumping station is in and operational,” he said. “It’s hooked up to the emergency system and everything’s good to go.”

He and his crew have gone through training for the upgraded system.

Once the upgrades are complete, he said everything will run out out of the well at the south tower to the existing northeast wastewater treatment plant. The village will have to test and submit samples to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, then it will be online.

The board also discussed a request for a variance on a lot in the Aten Acres subdivision. The owner of the lot wanted the board to consider extending the lot to have a half-acre total.

It’s village property and the board asked Gardner to get costs and measurements to to split three lots into two to accommodatte the request.

The board approved blocking off two parking spaces at 137 E. Main St. for an event from 4-7 p.m. on June 11. It also approved closing off Walnut Avenue from Spring to High streets for the Heritage Days car show.