Dummer Twelfth Line Road to be rebuilt
A Douro-Dummer Township road is getting some muchneeded reconstruction after receiving provincial funding of more than $830,000.
Twelfth Line Road in Dummer will be revamped through the $830,897 in funding announced by Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Minister and Peterborough MPP Jeff Leal at the township office on Monday.
The money will be used for road widening, utility relocation, brushing and fencing.
Twelfth Line Road is about halfway between Norwood and Havelock. It runs north off Highway 7 and into Peterborough County Forest.
The road sees pretty heavy traffic, with about 25 houses on it, vehicles travelling to and from the forest, and logging trucks and school buses using it.
Douro-Dummer Mayor J. Murray Jones said 12th Line has been in need of reconstruction for years.
“There are serious safety concerns,” Jones said.
The road is quite narrow in certain areas and there are a handful of dangerous curves along the seven-kilometre stretch.
But the township didn’t have the money to fix it, Jones said.
The township had applied for grants for the last five years, but didn’t luck out.
With funding now in place, brushing is already underway as well as engineering designs.
Jones said the township is grateful for the money because the cost to fix the road was just too much. It also allows the township to reallocate funds into other areas of concern.
“It frees up the money of our own resources to be able to deal with other roads we’re having issues with,” he said.
Harold Nelson, the township’s public works manager, said a completely new section of the road will be created where 12th Line connects Highway 7, straightening it out by moving it further east.
Some land near the dangerous curves will be purchased to straighten out the bends as well.
The project needs to be finished within two years, but Nelson expects most of it to be done by the end of this year.