An underground void left by a century-plus old coal mine has delayed plans to replace water mains in a part of downtown Nanaimo.
on new water main infrastructure along Commercial Street, after drilling confirmed loose rock and voids several metres below the surface.
“We made an allowance for when we were back here for construction to do some further drilling, and that further drilling actually revealed the presence of a larger void in the intersection of Bastion and Commercial,” he explained. “We just had this potential risk for worker safety, if they are down in the trench, down close to that void, we wouldn’t want the trench bottom to go out. We put construction on pause,” he said.
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