Important infrastructure work has been completed along a busy section of a main Mississauga road, Peel Region officials say.

Project leaders said on Tuesday work to upgrade the sanitary sewer and maintenance holes — aka manholes — along Eglinton Avenue West, near Mississauga Road, has finished.

“All construction work” on Eglinton Avenue West, from Hewicks Lane to The Chase, “is complete. We’ve upgraded sanitary sewers that carry wastewater that goes down the drain in your sink, tub, or shower or when you flush the toilet,” region officials said in a project update to the community.

The completed infrastructure job means not only is traffic expected to get back to normal without the delays, but that a main access point to a popular walking/jogging trail will reopen after being closed to the public since earlier this year.

Peel Region public works officials in charge of the project said earlier that the task being completed, which was needed to “keep providing (residents/businesses) with high-quality wastewater services,” required the Eglinton Avenue West/Barbertown Road access point to the Culham Trail be closed to the public while work continued.

The closure was necessary, project leaders added, in order “to keep pedestrians safe during this construction work.”

Map shows general area where sanitary sewer work was completed along a stretch of Eglinton Avenue West, between The Chase and Hewicks Lane.

Region officials said earlier this year that construction was to continue until “late summer,” but they added that timeline could change due to weather and/or other unexpected events.

The work was completed by Capital Sewer Services Inc. and supported by AECOM Canada ULC, both under contract to Peel Region, officials said.

At more than 35 years old, the Culham Trail runs some 13.5 kilometres along the Credit River in Mississauga’s west/northwest end.

(Source: Peel Region)

Beginning at Erindale Park, the trail continues through Riverwood Park and then north to Pinecliff Park. It winds through both urban and natural settings with access to many green spaces, the city said, adding the trail is popular with walkers, hikers, joggers and cyclists.

The completed work is part of a larger project — the Erin Mills Trunk Sewer rehabilitation — that involves tasks being completed at various other locations that include:

Ninth Line West, from Osprey Boulevard to Erin Centre Boulevard.
Erin Centre Boulevard, from Ninth Line West to Winston Churchill Boulevard.
Erin Centre Boulevard, from 2585 Erin Centre Blvd. to Erin Mills Parkway.


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