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WELLINGTON:<\/strong> Crews continue to make progress at construction of the Aerotech Connector in Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local residents had emailed The Laker News regarding blasting and damage to their homes, as well as being kept informed when blasting would occur at least last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, there hasn\u2019t been as much in that way happening and residents who live in nearby Oaken Hills say the blasting has picked up and is much more frequent daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The residents were wondering if there was any further info on the blasting or timeline for the Connector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n As such, The Laker News contacted the Department of Public Works seeking some answers to their query.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gary Andrea, spokesperson for the Department, said blasting operations remain underway at the Aerotech Connector project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe contractor is currently focusing on areas near Highway 2 and Highway 102,\u201d said Andrea in an interview. \u201cTimelines are highly subject to weather and existing rock conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the blasting will be continuing into May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBlasting operations are expected to continue for roughly the next six weeks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe area near Highway 2 should be finished by the end of the month.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrea also provided a bit of an update on the subgrade work at the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe expect subgrade work to be finished by early fall, 2024,\u201d said Andrea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”206″] [adrotate banner=”169″] WELLINGTON: Crews continue to make progress at construction of the Aerotech Connector in Wellington. Local residents had emailed The Laker News regarding blasting and damage to their homes, as well as being kept informed when blasting would occur at least last year. However, there hasn\u2019t been as much in that way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[212,6393,2,50,48,1684,143,442],"class_list":["post-43783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-aerotech-connector","tag-balsting","tag-fall-river","tag-halifax","tag-n-s","tag-oaken-hills","tag-wellington","tag-wellington-connector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}