CONSULTANTS in Land Resource Planning & Environmental Management ![]() PROJECTS WR Bennett Bridge Project, Kelowna, Graving Dock Site ![]() The new WRBB floating pontoons were built in a temporary Graving Dock constructed at Bear Creek on the west side of Okanagan Lake. A silt curtain was maintained around the Graving Dock throughout construction (photo Mar. 6, 2006). ![]() A new pontoon under construction in the Graving Dock. This photo shows pouring of the internal walls ![]() The old WRBB floating pontoons were demolished in the Graving Dock and recycled as concrete rubble and steel ![]() The Graving Dock was demolished in the spring of 2010. The alluvial sediments originally excavated from the site were used to refill the hole (photo June12, 2010). ![]() All disturbed areas of the Graving Dock site were hydro-seeded to a dryland native range mix, including bluebunch wheatgrass, rough fescue and lupine, in late September (photo Sept. 24, 2010). ![]() The riparian strip along the reconstructed beach was planted to native shrubs and trees, including ponderosa pine, willow, cottonwood, wild rose, snowberry and red osier dogwood (photo Sept. 24, 2010). |