good neighbourly relations committee city of brossard - may 4, 2016

Good Neighbourly Relations Committee Meeting City of Brossard: May 4, 2016 New Champlain Bridge Corridor Project Centre communautaire Nathalie Croteau

New Champlain Bridge Corridor Project

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Committee Members

Residents Luis Oscar Corrales Ginette Dufresne Marc Gagné Nabil Halouani Jacques Picard Jaime Reis Marc Turcotte – Representative from a community organization Éric Jutras – Member of the business community Partners Dan Genest – The Signature on the Saint-Laurent team Benoît Fillion – City of Brossard Vincent Jarry – Infrastructure Canada


Scope:

• Based on similar initiatives in other large-scale projects, creation of the Good Neighbourly Relations Committee (hereafter the “Committee”) to favour exchanges between SSL and residents, merchants and community organizations

• The primary purpose of the Committee is to proactively share all information on: Work completed, underway and to come

Anticipated impacts

Associated mitigation measures

• The meetings shall serve to: Answer questions

Find possible solutions for the various issues that are raised

Engage in discussions in an open and transparent manner

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SSL’s commitment

SSL is committed to:

• Listening to Committee members, answering their questions and concerns, and providing them with accurate and up-to-date information throughout the project

• Making the required information available to residents, merchants and community organizations as well as making such information easily accessible on various platforms

• Searching for solutions to respond to the concerns raised

by the Committee

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1. Inform you about the work that has been completed, is under way and planned between now and October 2016

2. Present the proposal retained for the anti-noise walls on the South Shore

3. Answer questions, find possible solutions and discuss the issues

Aim of the meeting

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Agenda

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Series Item Duration Time

1. Opening 10 min. 7:00 to 7:10 pm

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Work completed, underway and to come • Eastern approach area • Hwy-10 area • Cable-stayed bridge area

30 min. 7:10 to 7:40 pm

3. Committee question period 10 min. 7:40 to 7:50 pm

4. Anti-noise walls 30 min. 7:50 to 8:20 pm 5. Committee question period 10 min. 8:20 to 8:30 pm

6. Varia 10 min. 8:30 to 8:40 pm

7. General public question period 30 min. 8:40 to 9:10 pm

8. Adjournment: next meeting and topic 5 min. 9:10 to 9:15 pm


Work completed in the last months


Overview of completed work

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• Pile caisson drilling and concreting in the East Approach: 61 out of 78 (78% complete)

• Start of work on footing forms in the East Approach

• Abutment started

• Relocation of water main and other utilities


• Easy winter: solid progress for work in general in the East Approach

• Relocation of water main: excellent cooperation by the City of Brossard and the City of Longueuil

• Work site facilities basically completed: concerns with respect to access to the work site and motorist safety

• Very few complaints

Completed work: observations

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Complaints handling (early June 2015 to April 29, 2016)

Topic

Sector

Brossard

Closed Open Total

Noise 4 - 4

Air quality 0 - 0

Traffic 1 - 1

Vibrations 1 - 1

Brightness 1 - 1

Other 6 1 7

Total 13 1 14

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Main priorities for the coming months South Shore


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Location of areas City of Brossard

Gaétan Laberge and Wellington

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Highway 10

• Soil management and earthworks

East Approach of the new Champlain Bridge

• Construction of footings and pier bases

• Construction of eastern abutment

• Start of installation of prefabricated segments of piers and pier caps

Cable-stayed bridge

• Construction of main pylon and rear span

South Shore Priorities: May to October 2016

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Description of activity Approximate duration of work

Planned work period

Legend: Work and impacts

• Traffic and public transportation: • Proximity of residential areas: • Boating: • Bike paths:

Minor impact Medium impact

Major impact

Indication by level colour code

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Key activities under way and to come East Approach

Design and planning underway so modifications are possible


Objective: Construction of East Approach of the new Champlain Bridge

Upcoming work:

• Completion of pile caissons

• Forming and concreting of footings and pier bases

• Construction of eastern abutment columns and pier caps

• Placement of prefabricated segments of piers and pier caps

Approach:

• Daytime work, to the extent possible, when the impacts (especially noise levels) are significant

• Nighttime work, to the extent possible, when the impacts on daytime traffic are too significant

East Approach area

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Nov 2015

May 2016

Nov 2016

May 2017

Nov 2017

Nov 2018

May 2018

Construction of footings

Installation of piers and pier caps

Assembly of superstructure and deck

Finishing work

East Approach: Timetable

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Feb 2016

Aug 2016

Feb 2017

Aug 2017

Feb 2018

Aug 2018


Work and impacts: East Approach

Pile caisson drilling and concreting and cofferdam placement

Duration: five months Projected period: January to May 2016

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40-metre navigational corridor



Forming and concreting of footings and pier bases Duration: six months

Projected period: April to September 2016

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40-metre navigational corridor



Construction of East Abutment Duration: seven months

Projected period: January to July 2016

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Placement of prefabricated segments of piers and pier caps

Duration: one year Projected period: August 2016 to August 2017

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Work and impacts: La

Riveraine bike path

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Detour of La Riveraine bike path until summer 2019

DETOUR OF LA RIVERAINE BIKE PATH


Work and impacts: East Approach work site exit

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Worker parking

Daily flow of traffic • 20 heavy trucks •150 light vehicles


Key activities under way and to come Highway 10

Design and planning under way so modifications are possible


Highway 10 area

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Objective: Area reserved for soil management for the work site and preparatory work for the reconfiguration of highway links

Upcoming work:

• Soil storage and earthworks at the eastern abutment

• Creation of a retaining basin for permanent drainage

• Installation of permanent anti-noise walls

Approach:

• Daytime work, to the extent possible, when the impacts (especially noise levels) are significant

• Night-time trucking from the West Approach to the East Approach


Work and impacts: Highway 10

Soil management and creation of a retaining basin Duration: duration of project

Projected period: 2016 to 2019

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Work and impacts: Highway 10

Earthworks at the eastern abutment Duration: one year

Projected period: April 2016 to spring 2017

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Key activities under way and to come Cable-stayed bridge

Design and planning underway so modifications are possible


Cable-stayed bridge: Timetable

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2. Pylon foundations October 2015 to April 2016 1. Jetty

August to October 2015

6. Main span March 2017 to June 2018

3. Rear span November 2015 to March 2017

5. Upper pylon September 2016 to

June 2017

4. Lower pylon May to September 2016


Cable-stayed bridge: Overview

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Work and impacts: Seaway dike bike path

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Occasional closures starting this summer Final closure: fall 2016 or spring 2017 (TBC) to December 2018


Anticipated impacts


Anticipated impacts

• Road, bicycle and water traffic

• Noise

• Air quality

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Traffic

• JCCBI blitz from May 6 to 9: complete closure of northbound Hwy-15 North

• Fall JCCBI blitz: four weekends in September and October

• Minimal impact over the next six months: shoulder closure and lane deviation

• Upcoming major disruptions: installation of

superstructure and deck above Highway 132 traffic lanes

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Bike traffic

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• Detour of La Riveraine bike path until summer 2019 • Closure of Seaway dike bike path between Champlain

Bridge and the St-Lambert locks starting in all 2016 or spring 2017 (TBC) until December 2018


Water traffic

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Background

• Work site in water as well as a transport corridor for heavy parts between the Port of Montreal and the cable-stayed bridge area

• Navigational vigilance in the St. Lawrence

and in the Lesser La Prairie Basin

• Four one-day-long closures of the Lesser La Prairie Basin navigational corridor

Main mitigation measures • Communication • Waterway signs and marking • Patrolling and nautical surveillance • Equipment lighting

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B1: Turenne area B2: Voltaire area B3: Tisserand area

Noise management Ar

ea Activity

Period J/S/N

Exposed sensitive

area

Ambient noise dBA

Criterion dBA

Estimatednoise dBA

Required measures

Pile caisson drilling and concreting and cofferdam

placement J B1 60 75 75 Monitoring

required

Forming and concreting of footings and pier bases J B1/B2 60/62 75 68/66 Not required

Construction of eastern abutment J B1/B2 60/62 75 62/66 Not required

Placement of prefabricated segments of piers and

pier caps J B1/B2 60/62 75 61/64 Not required

A10 Earthworks at the Eastern

Abutment

J B2 62 75 73 Monitoring required

Cabl

e-st

ayed

br

idge

Miscellaneous work J B1/B2 60/62 75 61/63 Not required

East

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Noise management

Noise-sensitive zones


Air quality management

Regulatory framework - Contractual environmental obligations - Clean Air Regulation (CAR)

Applicable MDDELCC standards

MDDELCC CAR

PMt PM2.5

120 ug/m3 30 ug/m3

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Next meetings


• Good Neighbourly Relations Committee: September 21 or 28 (TBC) Topic: none projected

• No public information meeting is planned for the time being

Next meetings (for discussion)

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• Newsletter: sign up online

• Information sheets delivered to residents’ homes, if required, and notices in local newspapers

• Sign up / contact us: Website: www.newchamplain.ca Email: [email protected]

Phone us at: (514) 876-1020 Twitter: @NOUV_CHAMPLAIN

Communication

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http://www.newchamplain.ca/

mailto:[email protected]

good neighbourly relations committee city of brossard - may 4, 2016

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