The town of Sackville and Englobe engineering are hosting an open house Wednesday evening to answer questions about an upcoming project that will affect the Trans Canada Trail running alongside the Waterfowl park, as well as the properties adjacent to it.

The trunk sewer renewal project will run from Weldon to Princess Street, following existing sanitary sewer for the most part, with some realignments when necessary.

Overall location of the project, from Sackville.com

Town staff are inviting anyone with questions or concerns to drop in to town hall any time between 6:00pm to 8:30pm Wednesday to learn more about the project. Property owners will be able to find out where the trunk sewer will be on their property. Property owners who can’t make it will have information packages delivered to them.

Sackville’s Manager of Special Projects Kieran Miller says the Trans Canada Trail will be impacted at times during the course of the project. The design of the project will determine how much work gets done this year, says Miller, but the project is expected to be completed over the next three years, ending in 2024.

New Town Engineer arriving in August

Englobe was hired as the consulting engineer on the project in the absence of a town engineer for Sackville. Former town engineer Dwayne Acton resigned from his position in April to go work for Mount Allison University, and incoming town engineer Jon Eppell will take over in August.

Eppell comes to Sackville from a position with neighbouring Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, where he served as operations manager with the municipality for about 3 and a half years, according to his Linked In profile.

Before Cumberland County, Eppell worked with Halifax Harbour Bridges for 13 years, where he oversaw the years-long Big Lift project, which saw the deck of the McDonald Bridge in Halifax replaced in segments during overnight sessions, while the bridge remained in service during the day.

Eppell is slated to begin as Sackville’s new town engineer starting August 2nd.