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| An expanding work site on McBride. The City has decided to replace all of the water infrastructure pipe along McBride from Fifth Avenue down to Third Avenue |
The City's Operations Director provided a short update on the current work underway along McBride Street, with Richard Pucci sharing some notes on the scope of the work has expanded from the initial cut in the pavement of one week ago.
He responded on Monday night to a question from City Councillor Barry Cunningham towards the volume of work that is underway.
"I noticed on McBride they are going farther and farther up the road so I'm assuming that they're just getting rid of all the old pipe there ... I know they did a lot of work up at Eighth and McBride and Seventh and McBride so I'm assuming that now, just about all McBride other than the north side of Third Avenue has pretty well been replaced now"
In his reply, Mr. Pucci, observed for council that the city has decided to replace the entire length of pipe from the location of the first water-main break of last week.
"Yes, we are replacing the entire run of 102 year old pipe. We are going up into the intersection of Fifth all the down to the intersection of Third, there's valving on both sides so we will be tying into good pipe on the top of Fifth. We want to make sure that we don't fix this problem and cause another one immediately after that could put us in the same situation. So we will be replacing the entire run on the hill"
The City has not posted the video for Monday's council session as of yet, once they do we will provide it below:
Update: The missing archive of Monday's session was added to the listings on the afternoon of Monday, June 20th.The item above can be viewed starting at the 45 minute mark.
More notes on the McBride street work can be reviewed below:
June 10 -- McBride Street work expands further down the road towards Third Avenue
June 7 -- Watermain break reduces travel lanes for McBride street
Further notes on Monday's Council Session are available from our Council Timeline
A wider overview of the Operations Department is availalble here, while Council themes are explore through our Council Discussion archive.
Well when you get to the top of the hill turn around and fix the final stretch 3rd Ave. to 2nd Ave. waiting for it to break doesn’t seem like a cost effective plan to me.
ReplyDeleteIn 2015, the city estimated an infrastructure deficit of $284 million.
ReplyDeleteWater Distribution & Supply Pipe; 85km of Line require
replacement - $20.5 M
Sewage Collection System Pipes, Outfalls; Approximately
25% of the main trunk water system is pre 1925 lines -
$10.9 M
Between 2010 - 2015, the city average spend was $2.5 M annually on water and sewage each year. Which represented a 42% reduction.
Source - KPMG Study "City of Prince Rupert - Preparing for Growth"
https://www.princerupert.ca/sites/default/files/hays2/City%20of%20Prince%20Rupert%20-%20Preparing%20for%20Growth%20-%20KPMG%20-%20Jan%2022,%202015.pdf
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