2026-42 Ordinance Authorizing the City of Decatur, Illinois to Borrow Funds from the Water Pollution Control Loan Program through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for the Broadway and Jasper Sewer Rehabilitation Project, City

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Council Memo Public Works Department No. 2026-88 DATE: 11/2/2026 TO: Honorable Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe and City Council Members FROM: Melissa Hon, City Manager Matt Newell, Director of Public Works SUBJECT: Ordinance Authorizing the City of Decatur, Illinois to Borrow Funds from the Water Pollution Control Loan Program through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for the Broadway and Jasper Sewer Rehabilitation Project, City Project 2022-01 SUMMARY RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that the City Council approve, and that the Mayor be authorized to execute the Loan Ordinance authorizing the City to Borrow Funds from the Water Pollution Control Program through the Illinois Environmental Projection Agency for the Broadway and Jasper Sewer Rehabilitation Project for the Broadway and Jasper Sewer Rehabilitation Project, City Project 2022-01. BACKGROUND: The City's large diameter critical sewers are sewers with diameters ranging from 3 to 7 feet. They are major trunk sewers that serve large areas of the City and are vital to the City's sewer system. There are 5 critical sanitary sewers that are owned and operated by the City: 7th Ward Sewer, McKinley Avenue Sewer, Union Street Sewer, Lake Shore Drive Sewer, and Broadway/Jasper Sewer. Failure of a critical sewer would have dire consequences for the City such as loss of service for large sections of the City,pollution of the land and our drinking water supply, very high repair costs and possibly significant private property and building damage. The Public Works Department prepared a Critical Sewers Rehabilitation Facilities Plan which was approved by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) on February 4, 2013. The plan analyzed four of the five critical sanitary sewers; Lake Shore Drive Sewer, 7th Ward Sewer, McKinley Avenue Sewer and Union Street Sewer. The City has completed all rehabilitation work on the four critical sewers analyzed in the plan. At the initiation of the sanitary sewer master plan in 2009, the Broadway and Jasper St Sewer did not show significant signs of deterioration was not included in the facilities plan. Recent inspections have shown additional deterioration, initiating the need for rehabilitation. Broadway and Jasper Street Sewer The Broadway and Jasper St sewer was originally constructed circa 1890's and is a brick pipe varying in size from 36" to 84" in diameter, both circular and egg shaped. The Jasper Street relief sewer was constructed in the 1940's, a circular concrete pipe 54" in diameter. The Broadway and Jasper Street sewers start near Grand Avenue and combine at Martian Luther King Jr Dr. and Prairie St. The system then extends south until it connects to a diversion structure owned and operated by the Sanitary District of Decatur on South Main St. near the Greenwood Cemetery. The total footage of pipe is approx. 22,600 feet. See the attached location maps. Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) State Revolving Loan Program