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Ingraham Trail on track $6.6 million spent to date
Lyndsay Herman
Northern News Services
Published Friday, July 26, 2013
SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE
The Ingraham Trail realignment project is on track for completion in September, according to the Department of Transportation
Ingraham trail highlights
- Alignment route will open to traffic October 2013 and old route will close November 2013.
- 3,800 person days of employment generated by the project, 85 per cent local or Northern.
- $6.6 million spent to date.
- 105,000 cubic metres of rock cleared as of May 31.
Source: Department of Transportation
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"We are still on track for opening in the fall. We're opening up in October but final cleanup will be in November," said Larry Purcka with the department.
The project realigns Highway 4 from its intersection with Highway 3 to approximately kilometre 7, near the Yellowknife River.
The purpose of the realignment is to make way for freezing infrastructure on the surface required for Giant Mine's underground storage vaults and to avoid slopes and low-visibility corners on the current route of Highway 4.
Det'on Cho Corporation is the project contractor. The company had drilled and blasted 105,000 cubic metres of rock and built 3.5 kilometres of roadway embankment as of May 31.
The Department of Transportation estimates 3,800 person days of work has been generated by the project, with Northern employment surpassing 85 per cent or 3,230 person days.
Work is moving further down the road later this week, said Purcka.
"We are going to start working on the Ingraham Trail on the other side of Vee Lake. Sometime this week we should be running haul trucks from kilometre 3 at the Giant Mine site right to Vee Lake and beyond to the Yellowknife River."
The GNWT signed a contract with the Det'on Cho Corporation for $16 million in October 2012.
The largest portion of funding spent, almost $3.9 million, went to embankment construction.
Additionally, $1.5 million has been spent on rock excavation.
The remainder of the $6.6 million spent to date has gone to pre-engineering studies and assessments, design services, permitting, and clearing work.
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