Walton Street is now open! Thank you to our community for your resilience while we took on a once-in-a-generation main street reconstruction. Together, we’ve built more than just a new street, we’ve built a stronger, more connected community.
Project Information and History
We've completed significant infrastructure improvements on Walton Street to fix aging infrastructure and improve accessibility and design. Learn more about the project background and history below.
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In 2020, the Municipality of Port Hope engaged CIMA+ to complete the design of infrastructure improvements on Walton Street from Mill Street West to Church Street. The project addressed important underground infrastructure improvements to aging watermains and sanitary sewers as well as undersized storm sewers. The need to replace underground infrastructure, while challenging, created opportunities for roadway reconstruction and streetscape improvements which were integrated into the project.
In August 2021, Council directed staff to continue with the preliminary design and public input received to date for the portion of Walton Street from Church Street to Pine Street in the fall/winter of 2021/2022 with construction to begin in 2022. Council further directed staff to commence additional public and stakeholder engagement prior to moving forward with detailed design for Walton Street from Pine Street to Mill Street. With this Council direction, staff separated the project into two phases.
The tender for the second phase of the Walton Street Reconstruction project closed on November 3, 2023. However, there was only one compliant bid, and the quoted project costs were significantly more money than the Municipality had initially planned for this project. Council decided to break Phase two into two parts over two years to better manage costs.
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