Ottawa Sinkhole Day 4: The Bay reopens, road closures still in effect

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The Bay in the Rideau Centre reopened Saturday while crews at street level continued round-the-clock work to repair a massive sinkhole that opened on Rideau Street earlier this week.

Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury tweeted Saturday morning a bird’s-eye view photo of workers on top of the now-filled sinkhole, where several thousand cubic metres of concrete had been poured and set.


A look at progress from the #sinkhole ; crews have been able to access & begin work in the "concrete poored" section pic.twitter.com/6ejnGppgti

— Mathieu Fleury (@MathieuFleury) June 11, 2016


Meanwhile, a 300-metre stretch of the LRT tunnel underneath Rideau Street, just east of the sinkhole, is flooded, the city said Friday.

“Over the next several days, water will be pumped out to allow teams to better assess the impact and plan the path forward,” city manager Steve Kanellakos wrote in a late-afternoon memo sent to Mayor Jim Watson and city councillors.

Earlier Friday, Kanellakos told Postmedia that engineers believed there would be no permanent damage to the tunnel, which is a key part of the $2.1-billion Confederation LRT line set to open in 2018.

As of Friday evening, Colonel By Drive was opened to Daly Avenue northbound, and southbound from Mackenzie Boulevard in its entirety.

City officials on Friday relayed several key pieces of information heading into the weekend.

  • Road closures and transit detours remain in place while crews repair the damage and restore services
  • Sidewalks on the north side of Rideau between the Tim Hortons and Dalhousie streets and on the south side of Rideau between Nicholas Avenue and Dalhousie have re-opened, facilitating the reopening of businesses in those areas
  • Additional signs and digital boards have been put up to help the public navigate around the site
  • Water service has been fully reinstated to most buildings in the area and Ottawa Public Health’s precautionary boil-water advisory only remains in place for some businesses (it was lifted for the Rideau Centre food court)

— With files from Matthew Pearson



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