Utilities

Utilities
Light and Power

  • Owned and operated by the City since 1899.
  • The system presently serves 6,091 residential, 589 commercial and 139 industrial users.
  • Spread out across a geographic area of approximately 64 square miles.
  • Total electrical load for 2023 amounted to 236,353 megawatt-hours, with a peak historic load of 36 megawatts.

Contact:
Dan Cook
Director of Light and Power
(618) 654-7511
dcook@highlandil.gov

STREET & ALLEY
Supervisor:  Clint Conrad

  • Maintains improvements within the rights-of-way of Highland.
  • Street sweeping, snow plowing, sidewalk repair and replacement, pavement patching, tree pruning and removal, storm sewer maintenance, mosquito abatement, grass and weed control of right-of-way
  • Maintains approximately 66 miles of streets and alleys.

WATER & SEWER MAINTENANCE
Supervisor:  Randy Rinderer

  • Water main repair, hydrant flushing, hydrant testing, new water services, sanitary sewer main jetting, and manhole maintenance.
  • The department is responsible for 89 miles of water main and 61 miles of sanitary sewer.

WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY
Supervisor:   Bill Zimmer

  • Processes wastewater for Highland residents.
  • The process uses an oxidation ditch and aerobic digester to treat an average 1.1 million gallons per day (gpd) with a total design capacity of 1.6 million gpd. 

WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Supervisor:  Mike Buss

 
  • Supplys water to Highland, St. Jacob, Grantfork, and Pierron, Country Hills Subdivision.  
  • The plant treats surface water drawn from Silver Lake.
  • The average daily process produces 1.2 million gallons per day (gpd) with a total design capacity of 4.2 million gpd.
  • Finished water is stored and distributed from the ground storage tank on IL Rte. 143, the elevated tower at 13th and Zschokke streets, and the clear well at the plant.
 

 

Public Works Contact:

Joe Gillespie
Director of Public Works
(618) 654-6823
jgillespie@highlandil.gov