Council assures businesses of minimal disruption during Grant St water main replacement
GRANT STREET
Douglas Shire Council says it has been already working closely with business owners in Grant St, Port Douglas to reduce the impact of major construction activity while a water main is replaced.
Excavation and pipelaying in the street from the Macrossan St end are scheduled to begin on Monday October 24.
Douglas Shire Council awarded a tender to FGF Developments to replace the pipeline “to create a more robust system and reduce maintenance requirements over the next 50 years.”
“The road will be closed to all vehicles between 7am and 6pm Monday to Friday,” Cr Kerr said.
Grant Street will be reopened at the end of each workday, and at the end of the work week, enabling all vehicles access between 6pm to 7am, and Sundays.
“Pedestrians will have access down the footpath on both sides of Grant Street.”
Exceptions for vehicle access will be:
- Delivery vehicles dropping off or picking up goods
- Business owners accessing staff carpark at 12 Grant Street – system will be put in place e.g., ticket in windscreen – so drivers don’t need to negotiate with different traffic controllers
- Emergency vehicles
- Tradies doing repair work at any of the businesses.
Some work may occur outside the hours of 7am to 6pm – particularly for planned interruptions to water supply, which will be scheduled to occur outside business operating times.
Later times for noisy, disruptive work
Council said to provide more certainty for traders and reduce the impacts during the busiest times of the day, FGF plans to do the more disruptive work after the lunch hour rush in the afternoons:
- The noisiest saw cutting (pavement demolition) work will be done after 3:00pm each day. This will prepare the area of trenching works to be done the following morning. The equipment used for trenching is not too noisy, as earplugs are not typically worn by the operators.
- The other noisier aspect of the work, although not at the level of saw cutting, is compacting the backfill material. There is noise and vibration, and the plan will be to commence this around 1:30pm each day.
Water Supply Interruptions
There will be three planned interruptions to water supply:
- When switching over from the old to the new water main at the intersection of Macrossan and Grant Street. Interruption in supply is anticipated to be 15-20 minutes.
- When switching over from the old to the new water main at the intersection of Mowbray and Grant Street. Interruption in supply is anticipated to be 15-20 minutes.
- When connecting individual businesses to the new water main. FGF, the contractor, will talk to individual businesses to schedule the planned interruptions at a time when they are closed.
For the full information:
https://douglas.qld.gov.au/grant-street-water-main-replacement