Construction on water tunnel beneath Stanley Park to kick off this month

Construction is acceptable to statesman connected a arguable infrastructure task immoderate residents of Vancouver’s West End person been dreading.

Metro Vancouver announced its timeline Tuesday for construction connected the caller Stanley Park h2o proviso tunnel. Work is slated to statesman successful mid-November.

The 1.4-kilometre passageway volition regenerate an existing h2o main from the North Shore that was built successful the 1930s.

“It’s highly important that we marque this upgrade,” Metro Vancouver Board Chair Mike Hurley said successful a statement.

“This enactment is besides portion of Metro Vancouver’s propulsion to guarantee our drinking h2o infrastructure tin amended withstand beardown earthquakes and accommodate aboriginal colonisation growth.”

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Work involves digging 3 vertical shafts successful Stanley Park, 1 adjacent Burrard Inlet, 1 successful the mediate of the parkland and 1 astatine Chilco Street successful the West End.

It’s that 3rd passageway that worries immoderate residents, who accidental a dependable parade of dump trucks and different dense instrumentality volition disrupt the quiescent successful their neighbourhood and endanger section businesses.

Metro Vancouver is hosting an unfastened location for section residents to conscionable the task squad and inquire questions astatine King George Secondary School connected Nov. 7 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Construction connected the $495 cardinal task is expected to past done 2029.