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Staff drove the route, which will take three days to complete, last weekend to make sure there are no surprises.

“Street lights can go up to where you didn’t think they would be,” he said.

The move includes a truck at the front pulling the unit, two on the back pushing, four pilot trucks and a police escort. The average speed is 30 to 40 kilometres per hour.

McKinnon said they will try to be on the road between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. only to avoid school buses.

JNE president Jim Nowakowski said the contract to assemble the crystallizer was a unique situation.

Its customer, Veolia Water Solutions of Plainfield, Ill., has the contract to supply crystallizers and evaporators for K+S. Veolia hired a Chinese company to do the prefabrication, then shipped the components to Houston and brought the pieces by truck to Saskatoon, where it was assembled by JNE.

“We took all of these sections that we had to fit and weld back together,” Nowakowski said.

JNE began the contract in early August, shipping the first crystallizer to the Legacy site in November and now this one.

The three-day route

Tuesday The three-day delivery begins Tuesday morning with the unit leaving JNE Welding’s Saskatoon site on Thatcher Avenue at 5 a.m. It will head northwest on Highway 16, then south on Grid Road 684, west on Township Road 374 (Auction Mart Road) before heading south on Range Road 3081.

From there it will head west on Highway 7 and then south on Highway 45, spending the night in Swanson.

Wednesday The delivery will continue south on Highway 45 before heading east on Highway 15, around the south side of Outlook on a grid road before continuing on Highway 15, then south on Highway 11 before spending the night in Davidson.

Thursday The unit will take its final journey from Davidson to the K+S site via Highway 11.

Expect slower traffic during the move.