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MAKE THE HIGH ROAD: Arthon’s 740s haul loads of blasted rock on a blistering Okanagan day. Higher up, the mountain goats are watching 14 tracks & treads • Fall 2008 www.finning.ca
ARock and a Wet Place Story by Jim Stirling photography by john Mcdougall In the dusty confines of a busy Okanagan Lake highway project, a B.C. construction company is making it work Imagine for a moment you’re a hawk, wings motionless as you ride the thermals. Beneath you winds a busy two-lane ribbon of highway, dotted with cars, RVs and trucks, some of them towing speedboats. Framing the highway on one side is a wall of rock. On the other, the land drops abruptly to the sparkling waters of Okanagan Lake below. The raptor’s eye view of this section of Okanagan Valley shows some of the physical challenges facing a construction project underway on Highway 97, north of Summerland in the scenic valley of southern British Columbia. Arthon Contractors Inc., based in the Okanagan Mission area of Kelowna, has a $38.5-million, two-year contract from the provincial Ministry of Transportation and Highways to twin an approximately seven-kilometre section of the highway. It’s a major construction job, one that’s stuck between a rock and a wet place. www.finning.ca Fall 2008 • tracks & treads 15
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