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September 14 construction update:Bonshaw:
Last week:
- Paving finished gravel surfaces
- Environmental worklists being addressed; ditching, check dams, hydroseeding, tap drain construction started
This week:
- 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
New Haven:
Last week:
- 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
This week:
- 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:
Last week:
- 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
This week:
- Gravelling and paving finished gravel surface
- Continue work required on environmental lists
New Haven:
Last week:
- Paving, gravelling and guardrail placed
- Water trucks required to keep dust down
- Environmental worklists being addressed, ditching, check dams, hydroseeding
This week:
- Continue work required on enviro lists
- Gravelling finished areas




August 24 construction update:
Bonshaw:
Last week:
- 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
This week:
- Continue cutting/wasting along existing TCH
- Paving finished gravel surface
New Haven:
Last week:
- 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
This week:
- Continue cutting/wasting along existing TCH
- Paving finished gravel surface




August 11 construction update:
Bonshaw:
Last week:
- Cut and fill operations continuing toward bridge
- Gravel placed on finished roadbed
- Hydroseeding of finished slopes
- Water trucks keeping dust down
This week:
- Continue cutting and waste disposal
- Paving finished gravel surface
- Milling existing highway
New Haven:
Last week:
- 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
This week:
- Continue cut and fill operations from Encounter Creek to Cameron Road
- Paving finished gravel surface
- Milling existing highway





July 15 construction update:
Bonshaw:
Last week:
- Cut and fill operations next to the CBC tower
- Excess excavated material being disposed of at approved locations
- Water trucks keeping dust down
This week:
- Continue cutting and waste disposal
- Stabilize finished slopes through hydroseeding
New Haven:
Last week:
- 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
This week:
- 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
June 25 construction update:
Bonshaw:
Past week:
- Earth work continued – earth dug (“cut”) from one area of the project is being used to build up (“fill”) other areas.
This week:
- 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.
New Haven:
Past week:
- 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.

Slopes are being seeded


Flexterra applied on slopes over arch culvert at Crawford's stream.

Type 1 silt fence used to protect adjacent wetland from new toe of slope fill.

Temporary mulching on slopes over storm water culvert, prior to final vegetation through hydroseeding.

A mulched slope near the Bonshaw bridge, which is being widened as part of the project.

Terra Tubes assist with filtering sediment


