Tower Road Dam

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Touchie Engineering, a division of R.V. Anderson Associates Limited, Awarded Major Water Supply Infrastructure Contract in Moncton, New Brunswick

Moncton, NB (July 21, 2008) - The City of Moncton has selected Touchie Engineering, a division of R.V. Anderson Associates Limited, to design and provide construction engineering services for the new Tower Road Dam and Reservoir in Turtle Creek, N.B..

The project is being undertaken to ensure that the City of Moncton has an adequate supply of water to meet its current and future development needs. The works include construction of a dam, spillway, bridge, and reservoir, as well as a plan for a future pumping station, forcemain and control gates. The proposed dam will be located at Tower Road in the Turtle Creek watershed, approximately 5 km upstream from the existing Turtle Creek dam, which currently acts as the City’s primary storage facility for its water supply system.

The Tower Road Dam and Reservoir will provide necessary water storage capacity for the tri-communities of Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview, and is expected to be developed in two stages, by adding the control gates at a future date to increase the storage from an initial 10.0 million cubic meters to 16.5 million cubic meters. Construction of the works under the current contract is expected to commence in the spring of 2010, with completion slated for the summer of 2012. Design and construction services will be carried out with Touchie’s long time project partners - Gemtec Limited, AMEC Environmental, and Hughes Surveys.

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with the City of Moncton on this essential infrastructure project for the citizens of Greater Moncton”, says Ken Morrison, P.Eng., President of R.V. Anderson Associates Limited. “This project allows us to deliver on our firm’s strategy to provide engineering services for sustainable infrastructure development, for the public sector and the citizens it serves.”

Touchie Engineering has a history of successful work on large, construction projects in the Moncton area, such as the Moncton Water Treatment Plant, and the Turtle Creek Dam Spillway Gates, as well as complex work for the Greater Moncton Sewerage Collection and Treatment System.

“Over the last 6 years, Touchie Engineering has completed much of the related work for the City of Moncton, including the recent Moncton Water Supply Review and the Tower Road Dam Environmental Impact Assessment Registration, both of which addressed a number of environmental and stakeholder issues, and have provided the foundation for the current estimated $20 million construction project.” says John Gallant, P.Eng., Touchie Engineering’s Project Manager. "As engineers of advanced water infrastructure, we are proud of our continued involvement in a project that will provide the residents of the tri-communities with an adequate supply of drinking water for the next 50 years.”

Touchie Engineering has been engaged in the practice of civil, municipal and environment consulting engineering in New Brunswick since 1980. As a division of R.V. Anderson Associates Limited of Toronto, Ontario, Touchie Engineering is a multi-disciplined team providing environmental and infrastructure expertise for technologies related to: water, wastewater, stormwater management, municipal infrastructure, transportation and urban development.

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For more information please contact:
Mr. John Gallant, P.Eng., Project Manager (506) 857-8525 (Moncton)
Mr. Rodney Hopper, P.Eng., Project Director (506) 857-8525 (Moncton)
Ms. Kirsten Warren, Media Contact (416) 497-8600 (Toronto)

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