The intersection of 4th Avenue and Lansdowne Street. (Image Credit: Victor Kaisar/CJFC Today)

By Victor Kaisar

Sewer Main Work

Fourth Avenue to close between Lansdowne and Seymour as sewer main project moves further south

Aug 10, 2025 | 3:32 PM

KAMLOOPS — The next phase of a sewer main replacement project in the downtown core of Kamloops is set to get underway on Monday (Aug. 11).

According to the City of Kamloops, Fourth Avenue will be closed to traffic between Lansdowne Street and Seymour Street. In a brief post on Facebook, it said the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Victoria Street will also be closed to accommodate work crews.

At this time, its not clear how long the intersection will be closed, though in July, Adam Gordon, the city’s project delivery manager, told CFJC Today that the intersection work could take “one to two weeks.”

Crews from BA Dawson Blacktop Ltd. began working on Fourth Avenue between Lansdowne and Victoria streets on July 7. They’re expected to proceed block by block until they reach Battle Street, which is expected to happen by early November.

This sewer main project – which builds off last year’s work along Lansdowne Street – is being done to upgrade capacity downtown for the City Gardens development as well as the Kamloops Centre for the Arts which is set to begin construction soon.

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“It’s again a deep trench [but] unlike Lansdowne, we should be able to keep traffic flowing more freely,” Gordon said in June, noting there will be impacts to transit, and buses that run along that section of Fourth Avenue will be detoured via Sixth Avenue.

“We’re also going to be in close discussions with residents and businesses along that stretch to limit impacts as much as we can.”

Information about the Fourth Avenue Sewer Upgrades Project can be found here, though as of publishing the page was not updated to reflect the next phase of the project.