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Boneyard Creek, Champaign, Illinois
The city of Champaign's Campustown area had been plagued with flooding for over 100 years. As a trusted consultant to the City of Champaign, Foth was selected to lead this complex design-build project. This work, along with the Healey Street Detention Basin, alleviated flooding through the Campustown business and residential district, and eliminated blighted, open drainage. This major rehabilitation of the Boneyard Creek along the University of Illinois Green Street corridor involved 2,000 feet of open channel conversion to an underground stormwater conveyance/storage system covered with an open space landscaped corridor with a multipurpose path. The project involved extensive studies and multi-agency coordination meetings, as well as design and construction services, ROW vacation, landscaping, lighting design for pedestrian and bicycle ways, amenities, street closures, parking design and major utility relocation and coordination. Periodic public information meetings were held onsite throughout the construction period for citizen comments and the relay of project specifics to interested and affected parties. These meetings followed the initial ground-breaking kick-off meeting held by the city to initialize the overall project and served to set forth the entire phasing segments of the project construction. Citizen and professional groups were given public information presentations and project tours during the project planning, design, and construction phases in an ongoing and continuous effort to keep all interested parties advised of the project status, direction, and completion. Benefits
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