Province to start road resurfacing in PG area: City takes opportunity to replace watermains

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Over eight kilometres of Highway 16 will be resurfaced between 20th Ave. and Old Cariboo Hwy. in Prince George, as well as nearly 20 kms of Hwy.97 between the Salmon River Bridge and O’Dell Rd. and 15 kms of Upper Fraser Rd.

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The Province, in partnership with the City of Prince George will resurface 130 metres of 11th Ave. between Vancouver and Victoria St.

The City of Prince George says that this operation will provide the City the opportunity to replace an aging section of watermain on 3rd Ave. and Victoria St., and to kick-start a strategy to replace the City’s oldest, and most break-prone mains.

Crews will begin their operations in the City the evening of Thursday, May 28, prior to the province’s plan to resurface Victoria St. The City says the operation will be concluded and the road repaved by Friday, May 29. During the operation buildings surrounding the area may experience a temporary water service disruption.

That project—watermain replacement—is expected to begin later this summer and is part of the City of Prince George’s larger Watermain Replacement Program, which aims at upgrading many of the City’s watermains that are determined to break at about nine times the rate of mains outside of the downtown area, and are past their 60-year service-life. Although the 23 kilometres of watermains make up only four percent of the City’s mains, they experience about a third of all breaks.

The province says that these road rehabilitation projects represent a combined investment of nearly $9 million: $8.9 million through the Government of B.C. and $32,000 through the City of Prince George.

“Provincial capital projects such as this and the upgrades along Highway 16 West are providing the city with fantastic opportunities to improve both above-and-below-ground infrastructure along the highways and achieve economies of scale that would not otherwise be available.”—Lyn Hall, Mayor of Prince George

Other major resurfacing projects around in northern B.C. this summer:

• Highways 2, 49 and 97 (Dawson Creek area): resurfacing 2.1 kilometres of Highway 2 from the east side of the roundabout and the junction of Highway 97, 15.4 kilometres of Highway 49 from the roundabout to the B.C.-Alberta border, and 2.8 kilometres of Highway 97 from the junction of Highway 2 to the CN Rail crossing. This project also includes resurfacing of numerous side roads in the Dawson Creek area (budget: $8.8 million)
• Highways 39 and 97 (south of Mackenzie): resurfacing 29 kilometres of Highway 97 from Whiskers Point to Parsnip River Bridge and 25 kilometres of Highway 39 from the junction of Highway 97 to Mill Road (budget: $3.0 million)
• Highway 5 (south of Blue River): resurfacing 18.7 kilometres of Highway 5 from Regional Boundary through Avola (budget: $2.7 million)
• Highway 16 (Smithers and Telkwa areas): resurfacing 26.6 kilometres of Highway 16 from Nouch Road to Fort Telkwa, excluding the Smithers Arterial (budget: $3.4 million)
• Highway 16 (east of Smithers): resurfacing 68 kilometres on Highway 16 from Wakefield Road to 6 Mile Hill, excluding the Houston Arterial. This project includes resurfacing of side roads in and around the Smithers area (budget: $4.1 million)