North Shore Boulevard is closed from Edgewater Crescent to Eagle Drive for four weeks during a sinkhole repair. Access to Burlington Golf & Country Club will be maintained at Eagle Drive.
Craig Campbell Metroland
North Shore Boulevard is closed from Edgewater Crescent to Eagle Drive for four weeks during a sinkhole repair. Access to Burlington Golf & Country Club will be maintained at Eagle Drive.
North Shore Boulevard is closed from Edgewater Crescent to Eagle Drive for four weeks during a sinkhole repair. Access to Burlington Golf & Country Club will be maintained at Eagle Drive.
Craig Campbell Metroland
North Shore Boulevard is closed from Edgewater Crescent to Eagle Drive for four weeks during a sinkhole repair. Access to Burlington Golf & Country Club will be maintained at Eagle Drive.
Craig Campbell Metroland
North Shore Boulevard is closed from Edgewater Crescent to Eagle Drive for four weeks during a sinkhole repair. Access to Burlington Golf & Country Club will be maintained at Eagle Drive.
North Shore Boulevard, between Edgewater Crescent and Eagle Drive, will remain closed for approximately four weeks while a sinkhole under the road near Burlington Golf & Country Club is repaired.
City of Burlington spokesperson Jeff Crowder said the city’s engineering department reported a 450 mm diameter corrugated steel culvert failed, allowing water to wash out sandy soil beneath the road. A hole developed in the westbound lane by Friday, March 22.
City engineering services staff were at the location Monday afternoon assessing the damage.
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“The closure (and) repair is expected to take around four weeks, weather permitting,” Crowder said. “A contractor will be onside to remove the corrugated steel culvert and replace it with a new 450 mm concrete culvert and repave the roadway.”
He said the existing 47-metre-long culvert is not easy to get to, at a depth of 6.5-metres and vegetated slopes on both sides of the road.
The estimated repair cost is $500,000.
An announcement of the road closure last Friday stated access to the golf club would be maintained from the west side of the closure, at Eagle Drive.
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Crowder said Scott Hamilton, the city’s director of engineering, confirmed Monday golf club access will be from the west side of the road closure.
Last Sunday’s Around the Bay Road Race route was detoured around the area of the sinkhole and washout under the road in order to avoid any traffic on that section.
is a reporter with Metroland, primarily covering Burlington. He previously covered the community of Dundas for 25 years. Reach him at ccampbell@torstar.ca.
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