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Business slumps through Laurier Steet sewer repair
laundromat, and other businesses within the two-block area have to park elsewhere and then walk to the store or shop where they want to go. The City will set up amarked detour sys- temat the St-Joseph Boulevard intersection of Laurier and the St-Jean Street intersection tomove all other traffic around the barrica- ded section until the sewer repair is comple- ted. Deschatelets and others attending the information meeting wondered about the impact of the detour on both the businesses and residents in the neighbourhood. One
concern was about garbage pickup. Deschatelets noted that hers is not the only business suffering because of the traffic restriction on Laurier. She added that the partial closure of both Laurier and Edwards Street because of the City’s work on the Lau- rier sewer line and the counties’ supervised work on the service connections across County Road 17 are affecting businesses in both those neighbourhoods. «I hope they have got something planned to (help) support those businesses who have to got to survive the year,» she said.
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Things are quieter at Mari Jo Dairy Bar since traffic was re-routed along that part of Laurier Street for an emergency sewer line repair project.
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people working full time. But nowDeschate- lets has six or seven people serving ice cream and not all of them are full-time. The City closed off the two-block section of Laurier Street to local and emergency service traffic only in early April after the section of sewer line near the St-Jean Street intersection collapsed. A TV camera drone sent in to explore the sewer line found the break and also revealed signs that a further section of the aging section of pipe needed immediate replacement to prevent another future break. Project leader Julien Lenhart explained that the city has been rushing both the repairs on the line and the plans for repla- cing the old pipe. The city has hired CH2M Engineering to replace the section of sewer line and reconnect it to the main by Aug. 14. The contract provides for a bonus if the company gets the work finished sooner and daily penalties for going past the Aug. 14 contract deadline. «It’s a strict completion date,» said Len- hart. «We really want to make them respect the deadline.» While work on replacing the sewer line continues, traffic along that section of Lau- rier is limited just to residents in the area and business owners and their customers. But the barrier cones setup has eliminated the street-side parking now, which means that customers at Mari Jo, the neighbouring
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Rockland City officials expect to have a section of old sewer line beneath Laurier Street replaced before the end of August. But it won’t be soon enough for some busi- ness owners who have seen their walk-in trade drop during the past weeks thanks to the partial street closure. About a dozen people who either live in that part of the neighbourhood or have a business there attended a public informa- tion meeting July 13 for an update on the City’s progress in replacing the old section of sewer line beneath the street that collapsed in early April. The section of sewer line involved is loca- ted within the two-block area between the Edward and St-Jean Street intersections. Julie Deschatelets, owner-operator of Mari Jo Dairy Bar, reported the repair situa- tion could not have come at a worse time for her business. The period from April/ May to the end of July is the prime period for her dairy bar operation and she has half the amount of business «since the barricade cones went up» that she should have if the street was fully open to all traffic. «This is the season for my business,» she said. «A lot of my staff are losing hours too.» The usual staff size for this time of year at Mari Jo Dairy Bar is between eight and 10
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