Section of unfinished Millennium Trail at Loyalist Parkway and Salem Road on March 28/2019. (Photo: Quinte News)
The hard work of many volunteers being led by a dedicated committee is paying off in spades on an important recreational asset that spans all of Prince Edward County.
On Thursday afternoon, county council’s Committee of the Whole heard a project update on the rehabilitation of the Millennium Trail, a former rail bed that crosses Prince Edward County from Carrying Place to past Picton, a distance of 46 kilometres.
The trail is being brushed and smoothed with limestone screenings, and kilometre markers with some signage have been installed.
So far the trail has been upgraded from Wellington through Picton.
Now members of the Millennium Trail Rehabilitation Committee plan to upgrade the rest of the trail from Hillier into Carrying Place this year.
While most of the work on the trail will be straightforward, work in the wetlands of Hubbs and Slabb creeks is expected to be complex and much more costly.
The budget set aside this year totals $434,000. The committee expects if the weather permits that the work will be done and done within budget this year.
Last year, the work had been tendered out and all five bids came in well over budget and it was then that the local committee was struck and it and the volunteers went to work making the project less costly.
