Mt. Carmel motorists will have to contend with a second major road project this year. The city council on Monday approved spending $485,000 to resurface College Drive from 13th Street to Park Road. City engineer Dave Dallas told commissioners that the project will be mostly paid for with Rebuild Illinois funds that have been accumulated over last couple of years. He said the monies have to be spent in the next few months, so work on College Drive will begin soon. The project involves milling the old asphalt and replacing it with new asphalt.
Public works director Mike Gidcumb also told the council that Mt. Carmel Stabilization Group and HSI have been awarded the bids for the summer road maintenance. Stabilization will do the chip and seal work in late June and the fog sealing after the 4th of July holiday. The bids came in at $148,000, about $17,000 below original estimates.
Work has already started on Mt. Carmel’s biggest 2025 road project, the resurfacing of 9th Street.