The Mini-Putt course at Port Elgin's Main Beach is looking bare after crews took down cedar trees to ready the property for the Cedar Crescent Village (CCV) project.
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The work began Monday, March 2 and Town of Saugeen Shores CAO David Smith says the wood will be repurposed as much as possible.
“We will repurpose the wood chips and we are salvaging the larger logs that cannot go through the Wood Chipper,” he says.
Smith says when trees were taken down at Fairy Lake in 2017, due to the Emerald Ash Borer infestation, logs were repurposed and used at the Firehall and made into a boardroom table used at the Saugeen Shores Police Department.
The cedar chips from the Mini-Putt will be used for municipal purposes, but will not make their way into gardens as cedar has acidic properties.
When asked when the “The Station” building will be removed Smith says it will occur “when we're out of the winter control season, then we will continue on with the site work,”.
Smith says in addition to the building removal, the train tracks in front of the station located in the parking lot will be removed, however the tracks north of the Edinburgh Club Condos running to North Shore Park will remain.
“The train tracks will be reused, the CCV proposal includes operating a train and their current plan is to follow that same route,” says Smith.
Smith says in addition to the wood the equipment inside the building will find a new use.
“We're going to repurpose as much as possible the abandoned equipment,” which he says includes fridges.