Riverside Drive between Grant Avenue and Arlington Boulevard
DMAF Phase 1: Scully-St. Mark's Pump Station and Riverside Drive East Reconstruction Project
September 2026 - Construction Update
Works are nearing completion on the Scully-St. Mark's Pump Station and Riverside Drive East Reconstruction Project. The Contractor, Sterling Ridge, is working to complete the following remaining works:
- Full permanent commissioning of the new pump station
- Completion of steel sheet shorewalls (capping and installing railings) at Scully and St. Mark's beach parkettes.
- Installation of stairs and railings at the new pump station.
- Completion of select landscaped restoration.
- Completion of restoration at Scully and St. Mark's beach parkettes.
Currently, the project is expected to be substantially complete in approximately 4 weeks (weather permitting).
Surface asphalt will will installed on Riverside Drive between Grant Avenue and Arlington Boulevard in 2027.
Riverside Drive between Grant Avenue and St. Mark's Road is now opened. Some works within the parkettes and pump station may require periodic traffic control (i.e., flagging) on Riverside Drive for equipment and material deliveries, however, full road closures are not anticipated.
Residents living within the construction zone are encouraged to report concerns regarding driver behavior directly to OPP dispatch at 888 310 1122. When calling this number, you will be connected to an OPP dispatcher.
Pedestrian pathway within the Riverside Drive project area (from Grant Avenue to Arlington Boulevard) and the Scully and St. Mark’s Beach Parks will remain closed until project completion. Please follow the project posted detour route Manning Road-Tecumseh Road-Brighton Road. For more information on this project, please see below.
Project Overview
This project marks Phase 1 of Tecumseh's Climate Change and Flooding Resiliency Project funded in part by the Government of Canada through the Disaster and Mitigation Adaptation Fund (DMAF).
The Town is providing an upgrade to a component of the regional stormwater infrastructure located in the St. Clair Beach area, along Riverside Drive between Grant Avenue and St. Mark's Road. The Scully Pump Station and St. Mark's Pump Station will be replaced by a consolidated pump station with increased capacity to help mitigate the risks of flooding for the service area.
To see how this project may affect your daily commute, please see the Road Closures and Traffic Detours section.
For location and further details regarding this project, see the Project Limit Map or Project Details section, or the Frequently Asked Questions section.
This page provides the following information as it relates to:
The work involves replacement of both pump stations into a consolidated Scully-St. Mark's Storm Pump Station located at the Scully Beach Park site (13698 Riverside Drive East). This project will also include installation of new trunk storm sewer along Riverside Drive, between Grant Avenue and Arlington Boulevard and upgraded shoreline protection works at both the Scully Beach Park site and St. Mark's Beach Park site.
The work includes the following:
- Decommissioning of the existing Scully Storm Pump Station located at 13698 Riverside Drive East
- Decommissioning of the existing St. Mark's Storm Pump Station located at 13770 Riverside Drive East
- Construction of a newly consolidated Scully-St. Mark's Storm Pump Station at the existing Scully Storm Pump Station site.
- Installation of approximately 500 meters of Trunk Storm sewer along Riverside Drive East, between Grant Avenue and Arlington Boulevard
- Shoreline protection upgrades at the new Scully-St. Mark's Storm Pump Station site
This project has two stages of construction works.
- Stage 1 includes the pump station works at 13698 Riverside Drive (Scully Beach Park) and 13770 Riverside Drive (St. Mark's Beach Park).
- Stage 2 involves the road reconstruction and trunk sewer installation on Riverside Drive East within the project limit (Grant Avenue to Arlington Boulevard).
A pump station is a facility that pumps sewage (storm or sanitary) to an outfall where it can be safely released or treated. They are very common in areas where flow of sewage by gravity is challenging due to low-lying areas. They can also be understood as a barrier between the outfall and local components of a sewage system, holding water from re-entering the system.
Considering the local region of Windsor-Essex is relatively flat, pump stations play a key role in the conveyance of sewage within the Town.
Why is this project important?
Phase 1 of Tecumseh’s DMAF project marks a significant progression towards increasing the level service of the Town storm water infrastructure system in the St. Marks and Scully Pump Station service area. Before surface flooding solutions can be administered on the local level, regional surface flooding solutions must be prioritized to facilitate these upgrades. In other words, before storm sewers can be upgraded to improve local capacity, regional storm water components (including storm water pump stations) that handle these sewer capacities must first be upgraded accordingly.
What is the benefit to the community?
Completion of Phase 1 will provide increased pumping capacity (6 times more than that of the existing) of the Scully/St. Marks Storm Pump Station and increased conveyance capacity from the Pump Station by installation of a new storm trunk sewer on Riverside Drive East. This is a crucial step in enhancing the level of service provided in the Scully/St. Marks Storm Pump Station catchment area, as it enables completion of local storm sewer upgrades for this area in the future.
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