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Parks Canada will begin repairs Monday on a deteriorating 500-metre section of the 183-year-old Rideau Canal‘s concrete walls in downtown Ottawa.
The work, which includes chipping away damaged concrete and resurfacing the wall with new concrete, will focus on the canal walls on the Queen Elizabeth Drive side in the area of the Bronson Bridge.
Construction will continue until next April, but it should not affect vehicular or pedestrian traffic, Parks Canada said in a news release Friday.
A 2012 asset review by Parks Canada found that the agency had deferred $104 million in needed maintenance and repairs along the historic canal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Earlier this year, an analysis by Ken Watson, a Rideau Canal expert and advocate, concluded that the 2012 review underestimated the cost by 33 per cent, meaning the current value of the deferred work is now $155 million.
Parks Canada announced this summer that it would spend $40 million over the next five years to repair and replace crumbling infrastructure along the canal.
Included in that sum was $7.6 million to repair the canal’s concrete walls between Dow’s Lake and the Ottawa Locks. The work starting Monday is the first phase of those repairs.
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The work, which includes chipping away damaged concrete and resurfacing the wall with new concrete, will focus on the canal walls on the Queen Elizabeth Drive side in the area of the Bronson Bridge.
Construction will continue until next April, but it should not affect vehicular or pedestrian traffic, Parks Canada said in a news release Friday.
A 2012 asset review by Parks Canada found that the agency had deferred $104 million in needed maintenance and repairs along the historic canal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Earlier this year, an analysis by Ken Watson, a Rideau Canal expert and advocate, concluded that the 2012 review underestimated the cost by 33 per cent, meaning the current value of the deferred work is now $155 million.
Parks Canada announced this summer that it would spend $40 million over the next five years to repair and replace crumbling infrastructure along the canal.
Included in that sum was $7.6 million to repair the canal’s concrete walls between Dow’s Lake and the Ottawa Locks. The work starting Monday is the first phase of those repairs.
dbutler@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/ButlerDon
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