Debris from about 350 destroyed structures in the Alberta mountain town needs to be removed. Construction services company EllisDon will lead this effort, but most of the work will be done by local and regional contractors.Construction services company EllisDon, headquartered in Mississauga, Ont., has been appointed to co-ordinate wildfire debris removal from Jasper.
Fiorino said that based on their experience with prior natural disasters in Fort McMurray and Slave Lake, "co-ordinated debris removal delivers efficiencies and cost savings to those insured that have been impacted by unfortunate total losses."Local and regional contractors will perform much of the work, said Kevin Smith, EllisDon's director for project advisory and management in Calgary.
For insured properties, Smith said, they're confident that they will be able to provide optimal pricing based on the cost advantages that come with the size of the project. "Hinton has opened up a certain portion of their landfill to accept this material, and we've been working in close co-ordination with West Yellowhead Regional Landfill to co-ordinate this effort," Smith said."That is a risk item that we're looking at, and we're trying to figure out some contingency solutions so that when we do start that extraction process of that debris, we don't run into any bottlenecks on the disposal side.