Taking requests: Municipality seeks contractor for major road rebuild

By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com GERALDTON — Work to completely rebuild Geraldton’s Main Street is slated to begin when the frost thaws next year. That’s according to Greenstone Mayor Jamie McPherson, who said the municipality has issued its request for proposals for the multimillion-dollar job. The work will include improving drainage well below ground, replacing water and sewer infrastructure, rebuilding the road’s foundation, widening the thoroughfare, installing new, more modern curbs and repaving. “The goal is to get the water table low enough that we don’t have that frost heaving and that the road will last for many years,” he said. “Being the start of the road up to the First Nation communities that don’t have road access, there’s going to be a lot of traffic going…

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