Journal Staff
The Howard Watson Nature Trail will be closed between Exmouth Street and Retford Avenue for about six weeks, starting Sept. 13.
The trail will be fenced off to the public to allow work crews to extend large water and sewer lines to the area and complete pumping station modifications, the city said.
The work is being done in preparation for a long-planned extension of The Rapids Parkway over what is currently the nature trail. The new road is to run from Sandpiper Drive beneath Highway 402 to a new T-intersection with stoplights at Exmouth Street.
The nature trail itself will be relocated to beside the road extension, which won’t be built until the Ontario Transportation Ministry rehabilitates the bridge overpass above the trail.