Some big investments are coming to a pair of Chatham-Kent harbours.
The Government of Canada is investing over $2.76 million for infrastructure improvements in Erieau, Wheatley, and the mouth of the Thames River.
$1.66 million of that is going to Erieau/Rondeau to replace the existing timber piles with steel pipe piles of four jetties and replace the concrete decking on six jetties.
Work started in the fall of 2018 and will be completed by March 2019.
Meantime Wheatley Harbour will receive $244,000 in funding to rehabilitate a timber pile wall and a new asphalt deck.
$860,000 is directed towards the reconstruction project at the Small Craft Harbour on the Thames River facility to rehabilitate sections of timber crib wall structures with new steel sheet piles walls, concrete capping, boat launch ramp repairs and a new asphalt parking lot.
The announcement was made in Erieau on Thursday by MP Ahmed Hussen on behalf of the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard.
