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By Aaron Schulze

Juniper Ridge Exit

Construction begins on Coldwater Road-High Canada Place emergency exit

Jul 14, 2021 | 3:17 PM

KAMLOOPS — The City of Kamloops Civic Operations crews have begun work on the Coldwater Road-Canada High Place emergency exit road between Juniper Ridge and Rose Hill.

It comes approximately two weeks after a large fire caused a scare for residents in the Juniper Ridge and Valleyview neighbourhoods.

Kamloops’ Chief Administrative Officer David Trawin said the city has a 20-metre right-of-way access to the emergency exit, and crews will look to widen the roadway. He noted it won’t be a permanent road for the city, though.

“There will be a gate separating it between Juniper and Rose Hill,” Trawin said. “It could be utilized to evacuate Rose Hill and Juniper, but it won’t be a full road. The road we’re looking at getting going full time is the Qu’Appelle Extension. I’ve spoke to the developer about moving that through, and the province about getting a right of way access over that road. The developer has done some preliminary design on that.”

Trawin said the developer of the Coldwater Extension is also looking to do some work – such as putting in culverts – which may not make the road available at certain times.

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“We want to make sure we’re not doing work at the exact same time on Coldwater, so we have at least one of the two available to be used at any time,” he said. “It should take about two weeks to do what we want to do, and then in the fall we’ll put some millings in, which should hold everything down.”

The City and the B.C. government are continuing talks of a secondary access out of Juniper Ridge.