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For the Highway 6 project, the roadway
was raised up two metres in certain areas.
McArthur says IECS Environmental Inc.’s
Cable Concrete G2 product was used on
about a third of the newly elevated roadbed
to protect it from wave erosion that’s pri-marily
wind induced.
“The waves had started to encroach the
highway, and in some cases, there was actu-ally
water splashed right up onto the road,”
said McArthur. He added that prior to the
grade raise, the roadway was less than a
metre above the lake in some places “so all
of that infrastructure was at risk.”
Acadia Construction of Saskatoon, Sask.,
was contracted to do the grade raising
work, which got underway in January 2017.
The embankment protection component
started a few months later and continued
into the fall of 2017. Acadia Construction
also installed the Cable Concrete material.
McArthur notes that weather provid-ed
the biggest challenges for road builders
during the early stages of project. It was a
very windy spring in 2017, he says, resulting
in heavier-than-normal wave action that
made construction more difficult.
“It meant a lot of headaches,” McArthur
said. In some instances, the builders had
to armour the road banks right after they
had constructed them, in order to prevent
the embankments from being destroyed
by large waves on Big Quill Lake that often
lasted all day and into the night.
“It caused some delays and extended
the project a little longer than expected, by
maybe a month or two,” said McArthur.
Turnkey service
IECS Environmental Inc. was awarded
a $600,000 contract to supply the Cable
Concrete material required for the road
PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
The newly constructed
Cable Concrete
system alongside
Highway 6 in May 2017.
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