Construction Updates
The work includes complete sanitary and watermain replacement on Ninth Street (Hurontario Street to Maple Street) and Maple Street (Eighth Street to Cameron Street), new storm sewer, local drainage improvements, new asphalt, and concrete curb and gutter.
The project is to be tendered in the spring of 2023 with construction beginning in the summer of 2023.
The work includes complete sanitary renewal from Oak Street to Hickory Street, including new sanitary services within the Town’s Right-of-Way (ROW), removal of existing 100 mm diameter water main and replacement water services from Walnut Street to Cedar Street, new storm sewer and drainage improvements, and extension of sidewalk on the south side of Fifth Street from Walnut Street to Spruce Street. Construction also includes new concrete curb and gutter, storm sewer and new asphalt throughout the limits of construction.
Construction began in 2022 and is on schedule for completion by the second week of July 2023 at the latest.
Curbs have been poured and asphalt is scheduled for the week of June 12 to 17, followed by the sidewalk extension from Walnut Street to Spruce Street. Once the new sidewalk is poured, topsoil and sod will be placed, followed by top asphalt to complete the project.
Below is a diagram of the reconstructed road profile.
Fifth Street is depicted below with the road ready for curbs, sidewalks and asphalt:
The new curbs are installed as shown in the following picture:
The Town is in the process of tendering this work. Asphalt resurfacing is anticipated to begin July/August 2023 with the following sections of road being resurfaced:
1) Third Street (High Street to Spruce Street)
2) Spruce Street (Second Street to Third Street)
3) Ninth Street (Birch Street to Oak Street)
4) Seventh Street (Oak Street to Walnut Street)
5) Leslie Street
The Public Works Sidewalk Repair Program is an annual sidewalk renewal program where large sections of broken and/or cracked sidewalks are replaced. Work will be completed by contractors in two phases: one in the spring and the second phase in the fall.
The work includes the removal of the existing twin corrugated steel pipe (CSP) culverts, removal of existing catch basins and leads, supply and installation of approximately 250m of new 1800mm x 900mm precast box culvert complete with reinforced concrete distribution slab, new head walls at either end of the new culvert, water proofing of new structure, supply and installation of new catch basins and storm sewer and all restoration within the limits of construction.
The Minnesota Storm Sewer Replacement project includes the Ontario Street Pedestrian Crossing project and will be tendered as a single project. Tender is tentatively scheduled for early summer 2023 dependent on property negotiations.
Annual work done on guide rails at various locations across Town.
The Mountain Road Improvement Project is currently in the detail design phase after working through an Environmental Assessment Addendum process. The project includes urbanization and widening of Mountain Road to a five (5) lane cross section, two (2) lanes per direction with one (1) centre turn lane, a new bridge over the Black Ash Creek, a signalized pedestrian crossing at the Black Ash Creek trail crossing at Mountain Road, and intersection improvements at Tenth Line and Mountain Road with a new round-a-bout. A multi-use trail will be added to the south side of Mountain Road.
Detail design and utility relocations are scheduled to be completed in 2023 with the project to be tendered over the winter of 2023/2024. Construction would then begin in the spring of 2024.
Design work is currently underway and expected to be completed by the summer for permanent traffic calming and active transportation upgrades on Findlay Drive. Implementation of the final design is anticipated in the fall of 2023.
If identified as warranted under the feasibility study currently underway, a pedestrian crossing at High Street is being considered as part of this design.
High Street is an arterial road approximately 2.85 km long running north south between Poplar Sideroad and First Street. A Schedule ‘C’ Environmental Assessment (EA) was completed in 2007 to evaluate solutions for transportation and infrastructure improvements for High Street from Poplar Sideroad to Third Street. In 2007, the preferred solution for the study corridor consisted of road widening and reconstruction, intersection improvements, new and improved pedestrian facilities, landscaping, and aesthetic improvements, and municipal infrastructure improvements. The EA proposed that the High Street project be constructed in phases and therefore High Street from Third Street to Tenth Street was reconstructed in 2008.
Since the conclusion of the EA in 2007 and implementation of Phase 1 Construction in 2008, the 2007 EA has reached its 10-year expiration, therefore an addendum to update key studies is to be undertaken. These studies will includes Natural Heritage, Terrestrial Assessment, Aquatic Habitat, Archaeological, as well as updated traffic counts.
A tentative schedule for the project is completion of the Environmental Assessment Addendum by December 2023, detail design and utility relocates from January to December in 2024 and 2025, and construction to occur in 2025 and 2026.
The following image is a map outlining the project work area along High Street between Tenth Street and Poplar Sideroad
Bridge 08 (Oak Street culvert) and Bridge 09 (Second Street bridge) both convey the Oak Street Canal.
The scope of the project includes a review of the sidewalk collapse, complete topographic survey and required field measurements, complete detailed deck condition survey on both structures, identify options to rehabilitate both structures, fix the collapsed sidewalk on Oak Street, and other intersection improvements.
Detail Design is scheduled to be complete by the end of 2023, tender in the winter of 2023/2024 and a spring 2024 construction start.
The following image is a map of the project area at the intersection of Second Street and Oak Street.
