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Belleville city council approves two major infrastructure projects

Ontario Construction News staff writer

AECOM Canada Limited has been awarded a $3.1 million contract to provide detailed design for a new sewage pumping station on Avonlough Road in Belleville. The facility will serve expanding housing developments in the west end plus the design of a widened Sidney Street/Bridge Street West intersection to allow for new development on the fairgrounds property.

Council also approved contractor K. Mulrooney Trucking’s bid of just over $4 million to reconstruct a section of Orchard Drive.

Work on Orchard Drive (from North Park Gardens to Prince of Wales Drive) will include the replacement of the existing water main and water services, the replacement of the existing sanitary sewer main and sanitary sewer services, the installation of a new storm sewer main, as well as complete reconstruction of the road with new concrete curbs and gutters, new concrete sidewalks and new asphalt road surface, the city said in a press release.

On Pringle Drive (from North Park Street to Orchard Drive) construction will include the replacement of the existing water main and water services, the replacement of the existing sanitary sewer main and sanitary sewer services, as well as complete reconstruction of the road with new concrete curbs and gutters, new concrete sidewalks and new asphalt road surface.”

Construction is anticipated to be completed by the end of the year.

Robin MacLennan, Editor, Ontario Construction News
Robin MacLennan, Editor, Ontario Construction News
Robin MacLennan has been a reporter, photographer and editor at newspapers and magazines in Barrie, Toronto and across Canada for more than three decades. She lives in North Bay. After venturing into corporate communications and promoting hospitals and healthcare, she happily returned to journalism full-time in 2020, joining Ontario Construction News as Writer and Editor. Robin can be reached at rmaclennan@ontarioconstructionnews.com
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