Feds Replacing Coast Guard Station in Burin

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it is going to spend $6.6 million building a new Canadian Coast Guard Search and Rescue Lifeboat Station in the community of Burin on the south coast of Newfoundland.

The new facilities will replace the existing one, and will include include construction of a wharf, operations building with living quarters and a storage facility.

DFO claims the new facility will bring significant improvement to service delivery, but didn’t really specificy how those improvement would be realized nor what if any new personnel would be stationed there.

“Construction of the new facility is expected to begin in the spring of 2013 and is scheduled for completion in 2015. Search and rescue operations will remain at the existing site until the new site is constructed,” DFO stated in a media release.

DFO noted that the Burin Lifeboat Station is home to the Canadian Coast Guard Cutter W. Jackman, a search and rescue vessel providing 24-hour coverage with a crew of four and that the new station will “provide added capacity for the operation of rigid-hulled inflatable boats from the Conservation and Protection Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.”