Road builders ready as B.C. seeks bids to repair flooded highways
Global News
The BC Highway Reinstatement Program will cover work on Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon, the Coquihalla from Hope to Merritt, and Highway 8 from Spences Bridge to Merritt.
The B.C. government is seeking bids for one of the biggest reconstruction programs the province has ever seen, with the record-breaking flooding and destruction from a series of atmospheric rivers.
Construction companies and engineering and design firms are being asked to respond to two requests for qualifications to rebuild highways that were battered and broken during the storms since Nov. 14.
The BC Highway Reinstatement Program will cover work on Highway 1 between Highway 11 in Abbotsford and Spences Bridge, Highway 5 between Hope and Merritt, and Highway 8 between Spences Bridge and Merritt.
The latter two corridors remain closed while Highway 1 is shut down from Boston Bar to Spences Bridge. All three major routes suffered major damage during the extreme rainfall.
“Individually, we’ve seen this devastation before,” said Kelly Scott, president of the BC Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association.
“(But) we’ve never seen this magnitude of so many at one time.”
The 69-kilometre Highway 8 connecting Merritt and Spences Bridge was largely destroyed by a surging Nicola River.
On Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon, a gaping hole at Jackass Mountain is part of the catastrophic damage south of Lytton.
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