Kenneth Brown
of The Clarion
The Town of Kindersley is about to award the tenders to asphalt, concrete and deep services contractors for infrastructure projects to be completed in 2018.
Kim Vogel, the town’s director of transportation and environment, said the tender process has closed for contractors to bid on the work. According to Vogel, town officials are pleased with what they have seen from the different contractors that made submissions.
“We’re quite happy with all of our submissions,” she said, recognizing the town received three submissions from asphalt contractors, five submissions from concrete contractors and six submissions from deep services contractors.
She noted that every one of the submissions came in under the estimated budget for the work, so the town will get a good price as a result. It will be up to council members to approve resolutions to award the tenders to contractors. The tenders are anticipated to be awarded at a council meeting on April 23.
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The asphalt project includes road reconstruction work and paving on King Drive and on Second Street West from King Drive to Carmichael Avenue. The asphalt project also includes paving the parking lots at the new Kindersley Aquatics Centre and future fire hall, Vogel said.
She said parts of the asphalt project including the fire hall parking lot could be removed if the project is not ready to proceed. The project includes deep patching and other surface patching of roads throughout the community.
Deep patching involves cutting out large portions of existing asphalt around problem areas to repair the road base and fill the areas with fresh asphalt. Surface patching is done if a road’s base does not need work. The roads are dug up to fix water mains and Vogel said areas such as Second Avenue West will be patched as part of the work.
The concrete project includes all of the curb, gutter and sidewalk work to be completed as part of the paving projects on King Drive and Second Street West. The project often includes other concrete work at locations including intersections.
As for the water main replacement project, the work will include the water mains for King Drive and Second Street West. Vogel said the town built up its reserve funds to be able to do the deep services work in conjunction with the road work.
Vogel said the town’s infrastructure replacement plan looks at the above ground infrastructure such as roads, sidewalks, curbs and gutters and underground infrastructure such as water mains. No aspect of the plan is more important than another, so it is equal to the sum of its parts.
“The plan as a whole is important,” Vogel said, recognizing that the plan took a lot of work to develop and it was a big accomplishment to finalize.
She noted that the idea is to look at the above and below ground infrastructure together rather than separately, so work is completed at the proper time. Vogel said the approach helps the town to avoid digging up a recently paved road to replace a water main, so old mains are replaced when a road is paved.
The plan has also enabled the town to index roads according to the materials used to build them, their age and condition.
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