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Updates

• Paving finished gravel surfaces
• Environmental worklists being addressed; ditching, check dams, hydroseeding, tap drain construction started

• Start cut in existing highway towards Bonshaw bridge
• Continue work required on enviro lists
• Ensure controls are monitored and adjusted as required at Bonshaw park

• Paving, gravelling and guardrail being placed
• Environmental worklists being addressed; ditching, check dams, hydroseeding, placing additional controls to deal with flow towards inlet of box
• Culvert removals conducted as per DFO compensation plans

• Continue work required on enviro lists
• Grading and start of paving from Encounter Creek to Cameron Road
• Additional controls to be installed in north ditch that leads to box inlet in advance of potential rain events

Additional controls above concrete box


Enviro controls, new hydroseed



Tap drain pond above Bonshaw Park



Culvert removal, Old Peters Road


September 7 construction update:

Bonshaw:

• Paving, gravelling and guardrail placed
• Water trucks required to keep dust down
• Environmental worklists being addressed, ditching, check dams, hydroseeding
• Issue at Crosby Road sediment pond addressed and repaired

• Gravelling and paving finished gravel surface
• Continue work required on environmental lists

• Paving, gravelling and guardrail placed
• Water trucks required to keep dust down
• Environmental worklists being addressed, ditching, check dams, hydroseeding

• Continue work required on enviro lists
• Gravelling finished areas

• Milling operations towards bridge
• Gravel being placed on finished roadbed and paving
• Water trucks required to keep dust down
• Some hydroseeding of finished slopes, outstanding hydroseeding and environmental worklists given to contractor

• Continue cutting/wasting along existing TCH
• Paving finished gravel surface

• Milling operations towards bridge
• Gravel being placed on finished roadbed and paving
• Water trucks required to keep dust down
• Some hydroseeding of finished slopes, outstanding hydroseeding and environmental work lists given to contractor

• Continue cutting/wasting along existing TCH
• Paving finished gravel surface

• Cut and fill operations continuing toward bridge
• Gravel placed on finished roadbed
• Hydroseeding of finished slopes
• Water trucks keeping dust down

• Continue cutting and waste disposal
• Paving finished gravel surface
• Milling existing highway

• Excavating and placing material through Encounter Creek to Cameron Road
• Placing gravel on finished roadbed, fine grading for asphalt paving
• Water trucks keeping dust down
• Ditching

• Continue cut and fill operations from Encounter Creek to Cameron Road
• Paving finished gravel surface
• Milling existing highway

• Cut and fill operations next to the CBC tower
• Excess excavated material being disposed of at approved locations
• Water trucks keeping dust down

• Continue cutting and waste disposal
• Stabilize finished slopes through hydroseeding

• Excavating and disposing of material through cut west of box
• Continued monitoring of Belted Kingfisher nest
• Water trucks keeping dust down
• Hydroseeding of finished slopes

• Continue cut and fill operations west of box and stabilize slopes through hydroseeding
• Continue monitoring Kingfisher nest area
• Realign Crawfords Stream as per direction/input received from the provincial freshwater fisheries biologist

• Earth work continued – earth dug (“cut”) from one area of the project is being used to build up (“fill”) other areas.

• Cut and fill work will continue.
• Installation of rock check dams in ditches as they are brought to grade, to coincide with cut operations.
• Installation of additional sediment ponds.

• Excavation work on the box culvert at Crawford’s Brook continued.
• Excavation and ditching work on the new Peters Road, which will connect the new alignment with the existing road, continued.
• Hydroseeding, a method of planting grass seed with a high germination rate that is an effective erosion control measure, continued on the finished slopes.

This week:

• Excavation work on the box culvert at Crawford's Brook will continue.
• Work on the new Peters Road corner which includes shaping and hydroseeding will be completed.