Construction of the new floating dock at the Wellington Point boat launch will be starting shortly and, hopefully, be finished just in time for boating season.
During council’s Jan. 10 council meeting, Delta’s Director of Parks, Recreation & Culture Carmen Gonzalez and City Manager Sean McGill answered some questions from Coun. Jeannie Kanakos about the dock’s size and expected timeline.
“Our current timeline is to start this project very quickly ... Our hope is to actually have it completed by the end of April so that it would be available and ready for use for the summer,” said Gonzalez.
McGill clarified that the floating dock is about 40 metres in length and about 1.8 metres wide and will have a very similar structure to the one that was removed in 2020.
He also acknowledged how, when previously tendered, they struggled to find any bidders who were interested in taking on the construction project.
“We tendered it out without having all the approvals in place and we were relying on a potential contractor to deal with those approvals, and sometimes those approvals can be very challenging, so, we took on the approval process and when we went to tender this time, we actually had the four [bidders],” said McGill.
This time around, Pacific Industrial & Marine Installations Ltd. was the contractor with the lowest bid that met the project’s requirements, and council approved a $154,412 (plus applicable taxes) contract to be awarded to them during Monday’s meeting.
“We’d love to have [the floating dock] in place for boating season, and this is overdue ... I look forward to getting this built,” said McGill.
