The County of Middlesex has added a submission to the Navigable Waters Registry pursuant to the Canadian Navigable Waters Act for public comment as described herein.
In accordance with requirements of the Canadian Navigable Waters Act, the County of Middlesex hereby gives notice that an application has been submitted to the Minister of Transport for the below work(s):
Registry number: 14218
Navigation Protection Program file number: 2026-416274
Project description:
• The County of Middlesex plans to complete repairs to the Plover Mills Road bridge including expansion joint replacements; localized concrete repairs to the piers, deck soffit, deck fascia, curbs, and precast girders; grading repairs to the abutment foreslopes; and milling and paving the bridge deck and approaches.
• The work will be contained to the bridge itself; no in-water work, cofferdams, or alteration of the riverbanks are planned.
• No permanent changes to the navigational clearance under the bridge are planned.
• No impacts to navigation are expected during construction. Temporary platforms will be required above the waterway, but the depth of these platforms is not expected to exceed 2 metres (m) below the existing bridge soffit, thereby maintaining a vertical clearance of approximately 7.27 m under the bridge. No impacts to the available horizontal clearance are planned.
Worksite location:
The Plover Mills Road bridge crosses the Thames River in the Municipality of Thames Centre, Ontario. As shown on the map below, the bridge is located on Plover Mills Road (County Road 16), approximately 793 m west of Nissouri Road (County Road 27).
How to comment:
Comments about the potential effect of this work must be received in writing within 30 days of this posting.
We invite you to submit comments online through the online Common Project Search site (https://common-project-search.canada.ca/). To do so, enter the registry number or the NPP file number indicated above in the search box, select the corresponding result, and follow the instructions.
Alternatively, comments can be mailed or emailed to:
Transport Canada - Navigation Protection Program (NPP) 100 South Front Street, 1st Floor
Sarnia, ON N7T 2M4
@email
Please include the NPP file number 2026-416274 in any mailed or emailed correspondence.
Please note:
• Comments will only be considered if they are in writing (electronic or mail) and received by the deadline. The Navigation Protection Program may communicate with you to obtain additional information on your comments.
• Transport Canada does not publish comments submitted through the Common Project Search site or mailed to the Navigation Protection Program (for more information refer to https://nwar-rlen.tc.canada.ca/privacy-confidentialite).
• However, comments submitted online or by mail are considered public record. As such, they are subject to the Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act and are accessible through Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests. This means the information you provide should not contain confidential or sensitive information since it could be disclosed (for more information refer to https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/access-information/request-information.html).