A new master-planned development in south Caledon near the town’s boundary with the City of Brampton is the driver behind a $7 million watermain project currently under construction.
Sewer and watermain
A new master-planned development in south Caledon near the town’s boundary with the City of Brampton is the driver behind a $7 million watermain project currently under construction.
The watermains will service the Mayfield West community, which will consist of approximately 9,000 to 13,000 people by 2021, according to information provided by the town’s planning department.
In dollar amounts, the project in the Kennedy Road/Old School Road area is not overly large, says Peel Region project manager Bill Turner. But the overall length of the pipes is significant, he says.
It includes the installation of a three-kilometre-long 600mm-diameter concrete pressure feedermain, and a same-sized parallel distribution watermain along Kennedy Road. They will link the region’s watermain system with a two-million gallon elevated tank built last year. A number of smaller short-distance watermains are also been built along some sideroads.
Oakville-based Con-Kerr Construction is overseeing the open-cut installation. Work started last November and has been fairly straightforward because of the lack of snow this winter.
However, a couple of days were lost due to extremely cold weather and the deep frost was a problem, says Con-Kerr site superintendent Ernie Fabrizio.
The contractor is using a fleet of approximately four excavators, two loaders, two bobcats and two rollers. That doesn’t include the steady stream of trucks which are delivering material and removing excavated earth, says Fabrizio.
Con-Kerr has to keep at least one lane of the rural road open at all times so that residents can enter and leave their homes, says Peel Region construction manager Ole Petersen. That condition is part of a commitment the region made to homeowners to minimize the impact of the construction as much as possible, he says.
Rather than one long assembly process, the watermains are installed in one area at a time. As one crew completes each section, a second crew is close behind doing road maintenance work, says Petersen.
As Con-Kerr pushes to complete its contract so the lines and elevated tank can be operational, a separate second smaller stage project is being carried out just to the north by London Excavating. That firm is installing short stretches of 300mm PVC watermains which allow a number of businesses and an elementary school to connect with the system.
Although open cut is the primarily construction method, some directional drilling will have to be used under short watercourses, says Petersen.
This contract is not connected with the Mayfield West development. But the region decided to take advantage of the federal government infrastructure stimulus program to deliver improved services to the area, says Turner.
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