Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Illinois Infrastructure Report Card

2013 Report for Illinois Infrastructure

by the American Society of Civil Engineers

Any surprise Illinois scored a D+?

Complete report:  http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/state-facts/illinois

Notable:

  • Driving on roads in need of repair costs Illinois motorists $2.4 billion a year in extra vehicle repairs and operating costs – $292 per motorist.
  • 73% of Illinois’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition.
  • Illinois has 201 high hazard dams
  • Bridges
    • 2,311 of the 26,514 bridges in Illinois (8.7%) are considered structurally deficient    

    1,976 of the 26,514 bridges in Illinois (7.5%) are considered functionally obsolete.

Water and Environment

Dams

  • Illinois’s dam safety program has 4.7 Full-Time Employees that each oversee an average of 339.1 state regulated dams.
  • Illinois has 201 high hazard dams.
  • 85% of the state regulated dams in Illinois have an Emergency Action Plan.
  • Illinois’s state dam safety program has an annual budget of $335,000.

Drinking Water

  • Illinois has reported $15 billion in drinking water infrastructure needs over the next 20 years.

Hazardous Waste

  • Illinois has 45 sites on the National Priorities List.

Levees

  • Illinois has approximately 2,050 miles of levees according to the current FEMA Midterm Levee Inventory.

Wastewater

  • Illinois has reported $17.5 billion in wastewater infrastructure needs over the next 20 years.

Transportation

Aviation

  • There are 113 public-use airports in Illinois.

Bridges

  • 2,311 of the 26,514 bridges in Illinois (8.7%) are considered structurally deficient.
  • 1,976 of the 26,514 bridges in Illinois (7.5%) are considered functionally obsolete.
  • Illinois received $115.8 million from the Federal Highway Bridge Fund in FY2011.

Inland Waterways

  • Illinois has 1,100 miles of inland waterways, ranking it 8th in the nation.

Ports

  • Illinois’s ports handled 119.1 million short tons of cargo in 2009, ranking it 5th in the nation.

Rail

  • Illinois has 41 freight railroads covering 7,028 miles across the state, ranking it 2nd by mileage.

Roads

  • Driving on roads in need of repair costs Illinois motorists $2.4 billion a year in extra vehicle repairs and operating costs – $292 per motorist.
  • 73% of Illinois’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition.
  • Illinois has 139,577 public road miles.
  • Illinois’s highway vehicle-miles traveled in 2009 was approximately 8,238 per capita, ranking it 44th in the nation.
  • Illinois’s gas tax of 39.1 cents per gallon has not been increased in 1 year.

Transit

  • Illinois has 648,443 annual unlinked passenger trips via transit systems – motor bus, heavy rail, light rail, and commuter rail.

Public Facilities

Parks and Recreation

  • Illinois has reported an unmet need of $647.3 million for its parks system.

Schools

  • Public school districts in Illinois spent a total of $6.8 billion on capital outlays for school construction and acquisition of land and existing structures in fiscal years 2005–2008.
  • It is estimated that Illinois schools have $8.2 billion in infrastructure funding needs.

Energy

  • Illinois produces 5.257 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy every year, ranking it 29th.

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