BC Hydro Beautification Project

This is for your information:

"Construction will begin Wednesday September 15th on the Hydro Beautification Project.

As a follow-up to the Main Street/Town Centre Road project, last year the District was successful in obtaining a BC Hydro Beautification Grant to offset the cost of removing the hydro poles adjacent to the traffic circle and fronting the Memorial and Municipal Halls. In addition to improving the aesthetics of the traffic circle area, the project will remove utility wires that are temporarily tethered to the pole on the east side of the traffic circle

Construction will include extending underground ducting installed during the Main Street project from where it is currently stubbed off just north of the Memorial Hall to the north side of the Kingdom Hall driveway on Bottom Wood Lake Road, and installation of Hydro service vaults. The existing sidewalk installed in 2001 fronting the Municipal Hall will be removed and replaced. The sidewalk is intended to be upgraded to match and extend the paving stones used throughout Main Street if budgets allow. The Hydro service to Municipal Hall will also be replaced. There will be scheduled power outages at the municipal hall and the high school. BC Hydro and their contractor will schedule these and provide notice to those affected

The project requires coordination of several utility providers including BC Hydro, Shaw Cable, Telus and Terasen Gas and is expected to take 2 to 3 weeks to complete. Periodically during construction access to Municipal Hall will be via the Memorial Hall driveway. The prime contractor, CGL Contracting, will be providing traffic control and signage for the project."

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to call Sid Smith or Brian McEwan at 250-766-5650