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MANITOBA Hydro is teaming up with telecommunications utilities to dig 7.6 kilometres of pipeline trenches to lay gas lines and cables across the CentrePort Canada lands.
The $1.4-million trenching project is expected to be ready to deliver natural gas to existing and future commercial and residential facilities on CentrePort’s 20,000-acre footprint west of Richardon International Airport.
Scott Powell, a spokesman for Manitoba Hydro, said it is common for Hydro to partner with service providers such as MTS and Shaw to share the costs of trenching on smaller projects.
“It is fairly standard for some time,” he said. “But this is the first time we have done it on a much larger scale.”
The gas and telco lines mean more of the CentrePort lands will be serviced in a way that will make them development-ready at the conclusion of construction next year.
Work began late last month.
CentrePort officials say 42 companies have either built or are building new operations on more than 220 acres.
Phase I of the servicing project will cut east-west across the north section of CentrePort.
That will include the upcoming CentrePort Canada Rail Park, a 700-acre rail industrial park scheduled to begin construction next year.
Phase II of the project will run south to include a 590-acre residential community on the north side of Saskatchewan Avenue east of the Perimeter Highway along CentrePort’s southern edge.