Winter River Work

A new creek bed is being dug for Jonathon Creek in the city of Moncten, New Brunswick, Canada. It’s part of a $3 million remediation project stemming from a poorly closed waste cell. The “pre-causeway channel”, that is, the part from the outflow of the CN culvert to the historic river’s edge, will be lined with a special geotextile material covered with rip-rap, the round stones used to control erosion. Workers must perform this work in winter when the ground is frozen, else the construction equipment will sink.