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BLENKINSOP LAKE BRIDGE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, DISTRICT OF SAANICH, VICTORIA, BC

A J Rushforth, E Mcquarrie, David R. Munday, N Bester, Chuck Pease, Gary P. Fleming, C Novak

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The Victoria urban region has developed over 100 km of recreational trails along disused railway right-of-ways. A major gap in this system occurred at the Blenkinsop Lake where the original timber trestle had been demolished. This paper describes the public and engineering process in the planning and rebuilding of a new bridge (282 m long). A major influence was the impact of construction on the environment and protection of avia habitat and environmental monitoring was implemented. The constractor was required to construct the bridge from spans already completed and no mechanical equipment was allowed on the adjacent wetlands. Construction cost was $850,000. Opened in the fall of 2000, its use has exceeded the original projections. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E201066. (A)

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The Victoria urban region has developed over 100 km of recreational trails along disused railway right-of-ways. A major gap in this system occurred at the Blenkinsop Lake where the original timber trestle had been demolished. This paper describes the public and engineering process in the planning and rebuilding of a new bridge (282 m long). A major influence was the impact of construction on the environment and protection of avia habitat and environmental monitoring was implemented. The constractor was required to construct the bridge from spans already completed and no mechanical equipment was allowed on the adjacent wetlands. Construction cost was $850,000. Opened in the fall of 2000, its use has exceeded the original projections. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E201066. (A)

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The Victoria urban region has developed over 100 km of recreational trails along disused railway right-of-ways. A major gap in this system occurred at the Blenkinsop Lake where the original timber trestle had been demolished. This paper describes the public and engineering process in the planning and rebuilding of a new bridge (282 m long). A major influence was the impact of construction on the environment and protection of avia habitat and environmental monitoring was implemented. The constractor was required to construct the bridge from spans already completed and no mechanical equipment was allowed on the adjacent wetlands. Construction cost was $850,000. Opened in the fall of 2000, its use has exceeded the original projections. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E201066. (A)

Key concepts: Bridge (graph theory), Recreation, Civil engineering, Wetland, Engineering, Geography, Environmental planning, Environmental resource management

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