Drilling beneath Maple Avenue Bridge required for sewer work
By Medicine Hat News on June 5, 2020.
The next stage of building a major sewer trunkline will see crews drilling a bore beneath the northern approach of the Maple Avenue bridge this month. Work will resume Monday toward completing the Brier Park gravity bypass line that will serve the northwest quadrant of the city but runs to the sewage treatment plant under Riverside and then connects to lines near Police Point Park at the recently completed “Crescent Heights Lift Station.” The majority of lines were installed from Saamis Drive to Third Street in Riverside in previous years. On June 8, crews will begin working westward from Parkview Close (located beneath the Medicine Hat Golf and Country Club near the shores of the South Saskatchewan, to the other side of Maple Avenue and Altawana and Parkview drives via a directional bore beneath the major roadways. The process will also bring pipe beneath the Canada Pacific tracks near Second Avenue NE. The work will mean that Parkview Close and the pathway that joins it to Police Point could be closed to the public for the majority of the summer. Road closure Work to replace aging water and sewer pipes in Crescent Heights will move to the intersection of 12th Street NE and Fourth Avenue on Monday, the city announced. Traffic could be detoured around the site until mid-July as the work that began nearby in May proceeds to the high volume intersection. 9-8
