It’s been nearly 10 years since the Cottonwood Island Park area experienced a winter ‘ice jam’ that washed away its foot bridge.
Thanks to a $369,000 fund from the City of Prince George, construction crews will be building a new structure over the Nechako River.
City Engineering Assistant Michael Le Morvan says it’s been a project pushed to the side for the longest time due to a lack of finances.
“Money has to come in, but now, we got the funds thanks to City Council. This is also something that people have been asking for a while now; people just want a better Cottonwood Island Park. So we said, ‘Okay, this is the perfect opportunity to do it. Why not?’”
He adds an open house will be held later this fall to display the new 570-metre long bridge design to the public.
“We’re going to be rehabilitating some of the areas that have been losing material to make it a little better. We have hired a consultant to do a study on the Heritage River Trail as well to find the different priorities that needs to be dealt with to fix the trail.”
The project is set to begin later this month up until weather permits workers from paving, but it will remain open during that time.
It is expected to be fully complete by May 2018.
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