The National Works Agency (NWA) and the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) have joined forces to improve the Wakefield to Hardwar Gap and the Fellowship to Berrydale roadways in Portland. Both corridors are located in areas deemed important to the eco-tourism product for which Portland is known.
The Wakesfield to Hardwar Gap corridor, in Western Portland, provides access to many eco-tourism lovers, especially bikers who participate in the popular Blue Mountain Bicycle Tour. The Fellowship to Berrydale main road in Eastern Portland, provides access to the launch site of the world famous rafting on the Rio Grande.
Community Relations Officer at the NWA, Natalee Bloomfield, says that the project at Fellowship to Berrydale will see the total rehabilitation of the corridor to include the reshaping of the roadway, the construction of drains, including kerbs and channels, and the paving of the thoroughfare with Double Surface Dress (DSD). This project is over 70 per cent completed and will be completed by the end of this month.
In the meantime, works have been completed on the Wakefield to Hardwar Gap corridor. The works which were completed a week ago, included the removal of overgrowth and the patching of several sections of the corridor, using Asphaltic Concrete.
The combined value of the projects is over $32.8 million which is being funded by the TEF. They are both being executed by NWA’s Force Account teams.
