142 Business View - December 2014
The department maintains a ranking of roadways and
bridges in conjunction with routine inspections, then
creates a priority list of projects where monies most
need to be spent to maximize return. New rehabilita-
tion approaches have been employed as well, includ-
ing a thin surface overlay on roads this year that Pan-
nu said will provide an extra 10 years of use before
full-scale work is needed.
Recent significant projects have included a $2 million
rehabilitation of a three-span Canadian Pacific Railway
overhead bridge on County Road 2 between Port Hope
and Cobourg, along with 18 kilometers of rehabilita-
tion work on other roads including roadways that were
transferred from provincial to county authority.
Elsewhere, work is 70-percent complete on a four-
stage reconstruction of the Brighton Landfill, in which
the facility is being intermittently divided into distinct
cells and updated with modern environmentally-friend-
ly lining techniques. The target finishing date is within
five years, Pannu said.
Going forward county-wide, he said, a large emphasis
is being placed on future planning.
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