Metro Vancouver announced this week that it will be extending the hours of work for building new sewage infrastructure at the north end of the Golden Ears Bridge in Maple Ridge.
Construction activities for the Fraser River Crossing project will go from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. from Monday to Saturday until the end of this month, the regional government announced. There will be more activity and more equipment involved in the work, and there will be more noise.
Activities they will be extended further, running 24/7 from March until early 2023, when the project is scheduled to be completed.
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The project will eventually take sewage from Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows across the Golden Ears Bridge to the Northwest Langley Wastewater Treatment Plant. Metro has been building a pump station and storage tank for the sewage system near the north end of the bridge. It will also extend two pipes under the Fraser River to carry wastewater to Langley.
Working hours on the Fraser River Crossing project are being extended. Construction activities contained to the site will occur 7am - 8pm, Mon to Sat until the end of Feb. Starting in March until early 2023, work will occur 24/7. Learn more: https://t.co/WhKkxAzjkw
— Metro Vancouver (@MetroVancouver) February 2, 2022
The crossing is being done with horizontal directional drilling, creating a tunnel under the Fraser River, with the intention of avoiding impacts to the river.
Hammond residents have complained about truck traffic through their neighbourhood related to the work, and Metro said it is working on a solution. The project web page notes Metro is making progress toward opening an alternate primary truck access route via the Golden Ears Bridge on-ramp, and the new route is to be opened early this month. At that time, access through the Hammond community will no longer be used routinely for large trucks, and the current traffic control set-up will be removed. However, there may be periodic use of the Hammond routes, and it will remain an emergency access.
Metro said the contractor will monitor noise levels and implement mitigation measures.
The work on the pump station is more than 60 per cent completed.
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