The Lord Selkirk Bridge in Wallaceburg will be closed periodically next week.
Meanwhile, Chatham-Kent Council approved some additional funds for the bridge, which carried over from the $5.3-million rehabilitation project from last year.
All lanes will be closed at the bridge, located on McNaughton Avenue and between Dufferin Avenue and Wallace Street, from Monday, July 27, 2020 until Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day.
“There will be no access over bridge for emergency service vehicles,” officials with Infrastructure and Engineering Services for Chatham-Kent said in a press release.
“Bridge will be re-opened each evening after 7 p.m.”
The closure is for crews to complete on-going bridge balancing and commissioning work.
A detour will be posted for Highway 40/heavy traffic: Murray Street (Hwy 40), Base Line, Old Glass Road, Mason Street, Arnold Street, Dufferin Avenue.
Municipal officials say local and commercial traffic may use: Dufferin Avenue, Wellington Street, Fork Street, Margaret Avenue, Murray Street (Hwy 40) and Reaume Avenue.
At their Monday, June 20, 2020 electronic meeting, Council approved a staff recommendation to award $95,188.94 for additional design, contract administration and inspection of the rehabilitation of the bridge to AECOM Canada Ltd.
“During the 14 months of construction, AECOM and LCI Canada Ltd. worked together to complete the bridge rehabilitation as tendered,” said Jason Cikatricis, engineering technologist, in a staff report.
“As with all rehabilitations, especially moveable bridge rehabilitations, once the work proceeded into different stages of construction, there were a number of unforeseen issues that had to be resolved.”
Cikatricis said some of the issues could not have been included as part of the original tendered design because it would not become evident until the bridge was disassembled.
“Therefore, due to the number of unforeseen issues, the contractor and consultant had to spend more time and costs to complete the rehabilitation,” he said.
Details of the additional work that was completed can be read in the staff report, here.
