Major City Project Nearing Completion
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PRINCE GEORGE – Earlier this year, the community approved the spending $4.2 million on four projects, the most obvious to the general public being the new Nechako Riverside Park on the east side of the Foothills Bridge. It will have a large parking area above, as well as accessible washrooms and a picnic area. The grade to the riverside has been lessened to make it more accessible as well. And it’s completion is right around the corner.
Actually, that project will be coming to completion, hopefully by the end of this year,” says Gina Layte-Liston, the General Manager for Public Works. “There’s always some landscaping, restoration, that type of work that will need to get done in the Spring. But that park’s going to be ready to be open in early 2019.”
Another major project, worth over $4 million dollars will help with the recovery of stormwater that is currently flowing raw into MacMillan Creek. Layte-Liston says the design work to install a system to capture and clean that water, which comes from as far up the Hart Highway as Monterey Road, and clean it before it gets into the creek.
“It’s one of our priority watersheds for both fisheries and wildlife habitat,” says Layte-Liston. “So, it’s really important that we look at treating that stormwater.”
