Meaford to finish shoreline work in space of Fred Raper Park

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Shoreline work is to begin alongside the waterfront in Meaford within the coming days.

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The Municipality of Meaford mentioned Thursday that shoreline rehabilitation work alongside Bayfield Road, which skilled vital erosion as a result of excessive water ranges in Georgian Bay, will happen all through September.

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“This shoreline serves as a protecting barrier for very important infrastructure, together with roads, sidewalks, storm sewers, water and wastewater strains,” the municipality mentioned in a information launch.

The mission is a continuation of labor that was began in September 2021 after a coastal engineer was retained to design essential repairs for a greater than 400 metre span of shoreline from Fred Raper Park to the Meaford Museum. In 2021, precedence areas 1 and a pair of have been rehabilitated.

The work being undertaken this 12 months is what is called precedence space 3, which spans from Fred Raper Park east to the tip of the car parking zone, an space “which performs a vital position in defending the car parking zone and sidewalk space of Fred Raper Park,” it mentioned within the launch.

The work on the shoreline and inexperienced area is to incorporate drainage enhancements and the location of boulders to cut back erosion issues and lack of shoreline from wave motion, it says on a web site devoted to the mission at www.meaford.ca/Bayfield Shoreline.

The finances for the mission is simply over $291,000 from reserve funds, in line with the web site.

The work is predicted to take about two to 3 weeks to finish, throughout which the sidewalk alongside Fred Raper Park and some of the parking areas at its east finish shall be inaccessible, the discharge mentioned.