City of Dryden ready to go ahead with Duke Street reconstruction

Eight years after it was first designed, the City of Dryden is finally ready to go ahead with the Duke Street Reconstruction project.

The city’s project and asset manager Madhav Raithatha says the company the first designed the project has been selected to continue engineering it.

“The KGS Group previously completed the detailed design of this project in 2017,” Raithatha told Dryden city council recently.

“In order to maintain continuity and efficiency, KGS was again selected to proceed with tendering, contract administration, and inspection services.”

That contract is worth just over $247,600.

Raithatha says the reconstruction includes both above and below ground work.

“As of now, the Connecting Link grant is about $3 million.  Connecting Link is only funding the above ground portion, which is road works.  The rest of it would be municipal contribution for the underground services.  Our total estimate is about $6.3 million dollars.”

This the 10th year the City of Dryden has received funding through the Connecting Link program.

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