Motorists in Wallaceburg will have to wait a little longer to use the Lord Selkirk Bridge. 
Municipal officials say the bridge over the Sydenham River won’t reopen now until mid-November.
Chris Thibert, manager of Infrastructure Services, says the span was originally slated to reopen at the end of August, then in October, but more problems have surfaced.
“There were some existing features of the bridge that we were hoping or planning to salvage and reuse that we could not determine from the project onset how adequate they were until we got into the project itself and started ripping everything apart.”
Thibert says along with not being able to reuse some structural material, as they’d hoped, crews have also uncovered lead paint, which needs to be safely removed.
“With any rehabilitation project or any reconstruction project where we try to save money ultimately to salvage and reuse existing features of the bridge, there is a lot of risk with that and a lot of unknowns that you don’t identify until you start getting into it.”
The bridge has been undergoing repairs since early February.
