Traffic Advisory: Road Closure on Memorial Drive Due to Emergency Sewer Work

Traffic Advisory: Road Closure on Memorial Drive Due to Emergency Sewer Work

Office of Communications & Community Relations

Phone: 404-546-3200

 

TRAFFIC ADVISORY

Road Closure on Memorial Drive Due to Emergency Sewer Work

 

What:Road closure due to emergency point repair on sewer line

Where:  Memorial Drive SE will be closed to through traffic between Pearl Street SE and Chester Avenue SE 

When:  Friday, July 27, 2018 beginning at 7 a.m. Work will continue 24-hours each day until repair is complete in approximately three days.

Comments:  Crews will perform a point repair on hole that formed at the top of a 42 by 48-inch brick sewer main resulting in closure of the road. Construction is scheduled to begin on Friday, July 27, 2018 at 7 a.m. and last until the repairs are complete in approximately three days.

Traffic control measures and flaggers will be in place to guide motorists around the work zone. Residents and businesses will continue to have access to mail and package delivery, emergency services and trash pick-up. Motorists are urged to use caution and to avoid the area if possible.

Detour: Traveling eastbound on Memorial Drive SE, turn right on Pearl Street SE then left on Old Flat Shoals Road SE to Chester Avenue SE; make a left on Chester Avenue then make a right back onto Memorial Drive to continue east.

Traveling westbound on Memorial Drive SE, turn left onto Chester Avenue SE to Old Flat Shoals Road SE, make a right onto Pearl Street and a left on Memorial Drive to continue west.

 

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