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Fire department build under strict timeline
With the official groundbreaking
of the Fire Department of North
Huron Blyth Hall and Blyth Public
Works Shed now in the books, a
whirlwind process to have part of the
structure ready is underway.
With the sale of the Emergency
Services Training Centre already
complete and Blyth Cowbell
Brewing Company Ltd. already
owning the facility and premise,
there is a ticking clock for
contractors to finish the new project
to move fire equipment from the
centre to the new structure by Nov.
30.
A site meeting was held at the site
of the new facility, located between
667 and 709 Queen Street in Blyth
last week, according to Director of
Public Works Sean McGhee.
“[This week] what people will see
is some fencing going up and some
survey crews doing preliminary
studies,” McGhee said. “We’ll be
expecting to see the heavy
equipment show up the next week.”
McGhee said that, to prepare the
lot, some significant earth-moving is
necessary.
“We’re digging out the entire site,
and then doing site compaction and
back-filling to the proper elevation,
as well as doing the foundation,” he
said. “That whole process is what
will take place over the next six
weeks.”
McGhee said the plan is to have
the site prepped for construction
by the end of June, including having
tie-ins to municipal services
completed.
“We had always expected site prep
would be taking place near the end
of June,” he said. “Once the
contractors get in there, they can
start working towards the rest of the
timeline.”
The project has been broken up in
to two different phases, McGhee
said, between the site prep and the
build, to allow for different
specialized trades to be brought in
only when they’re needed.
“It makes things easy to co-
ordinate timelines that way,” he said.
As far as the Nov. 30 deadline,
McGhee said he believes it will be
met.
“We’re keeping to it,’ he said.
“Closer to the end of June... we will
have some tight timelines worked
out for the build teams,” he said.
Watch The Citizen for more
information on the build.
A big day
North Huron Council was happy to break ground at the site
of a new structure at the north end of Blyth that will host the
Fire Department of North Huron’s Blyth hall and the Public
Works Department. Construction of the site has to meet a
tight timeline, however, as the township only has until the
end of November to move the fire apparatus out of the former
Emergency Services Training Centre. From left: Deputy-Reeve
Trevor Seip, Councillor Chris Palmer, Councillor Ric McBurney,
Reeve Bernie Bailey, Councillor Kevin Falconer, Councillor Anita
van Hittersum and Councillor Paul Heffer. (Denny Scott photo)
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