Second corduroy road discovered beneath King Street in Waterloo

A second corduroy road has been found beneath King Street in Waterloo.

Officials with GrandLinq, the consortium designing and building the Ion light rail transit system, confirmed the find Friday afternoon.

“As of this morning, (archeologists) confirmed that this new discovery is indeed a corduroy road,” GrandLinq spokesperson Avril Fisken said in an email.

The new road was found along the east side of King Street North, just north of Conestoga Mall.

Archeological work to document the find began and finished Friday, Fisken said.

There is no impact on traffic in the area, Fisken said, as the find appears to be confined to the part of King that was already blocked off for construction work.

A worker examines a corduroy road discovered beneath King Street North in Waterloo on Friday, May 6, 2016.

While work was stopped in the section of road where the logs were found – which Fisken described as being about eight metres long – crews were able to keep going outside of the immediate vicinity of the find.

Written clearance from the province is needed before work can resume at the site where the logs were discovered.

This week’s find is the second corduroy road to have been discovered in Waterloo this spring.

In late March, a similar find was made beneath a section of King in the city’s uptown.

Construction in that area was delayed for more than a month as the road was examined, documented and exhumed.

Crews work at the scene of a corduroy road discovery on King Street North in Waterloo on Friday, May 6, 2016. (Tyler Calver / CTV Kitchener)

Made out of logs, corduroy roads are some of the first roadways built in Waterloo Region.

They were often placed in areas that were swampy or otherwise difficult to traverse without a pathway.

The uptown road was believed to have been there for nearly 200 years.