McLauchlan Street water renewal works to finish early
McLauchlan Street’s $1.7M water main upgrade is nearly complete.
This month sees the last of the big jobs completed, Council’s 3 Waters Project Engineer Graeme Jackson said.
“A lot of work was scheduled to be done during the July school holidays with most of McLauchlan Street under traffic management and diversions during that time,” he said.
The work was carried out during holidays to minimise disruption for Marlborough Girls’ College and Bohally Intermediate students, parents and teachers.
In early July, Fulton Hogan connected the large pipeline to McLauchlan Street at the Nelson Street junction and a big shutdown this week saw properties connected to the new water mains.
Work is now focussed on preparation for the next, and hopefully last, water shutdown next week.
“Apart from the clean-up and reinstatement works, which will be sorted by the end of July, we should be done,” Mr Jackson said.
The work, which began in January, is to replace the existing old and undersized water mains that run the full length of McLauchlan Street from Nelson Street to Old Renwick Road, and extend 800 metres along Old Renwick Road to the west and 200m to the east.