New lights, new water line and major road rehabilitation are the top-five projects the City of Armstrong will undertake in 2012.
Council approved a five-year capital plan, starting with five main projects this year: lighting upgrade and safety improvements on Smith Drive; replacing 70-year-old water lines on West Rosedale Avenue, mill and overlay on Pleasant Valley Road from Patten Drive to the city limits, along with spray sealing on Pleasant Valley from Patten to Okanagan Street; Wood Avenue from McKechnie Drive to the city limits; and Highland Park Road from Wood Avenue to Highland Park Drive.
Large area repairs will be done on Catherine Place at Catherine Crescent intersection and south, and Fowler Street at the road crossing and west lane.
Large area repairs include removal of the existing asphalt and substructure, installing new aggregates and 75-millimetre asphalt.
“Some of these are as a result of our overall assessment of infrastructure, some of it is preventative maintenance and some of it is getting ready for our new entrance to town to celebrate our hundredth (100th birthday in 2013),” said Mayor Chris Pieper.
The city will spend $340,000 from its roads and water budgets on the projects.
Coun. Sully O’Sullivan, chairperson of the public works committee, also explained that Colony Street – which endured two water main breaks in 2011 – has been moved to the top of the priority list for 2013.
But it could be moved into the 2012 plan as a joint project if the funds are there.
