A popular northeast Atlanta thoroughfare opened again today except for one lane and likely will be open for the Monday commute, a city spokeswoman said today.
DeKalb Avenue was shut down Thursday when a water main burst at Elmira Place. As much as 3 feet of water inundated the road early Thursday before city crews located a valve and shut off the flow of water into the pipe.
Emergency repairs were completed around 8 p.m. Thursday and the road reopened, but all lanes were shut down before daybreak Friday when water began leaking again.
One lane will likely remain closed for repairs early next week because rain required for the work to be redone, said Scheree Rawles, spokeswoman for the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management. Crews will have to replace the wet fill-in material with dry material, pour more concrete and patch it with asphalt after the concrete has cured, she said.
“We can’t do the road if the conditions are wet,” Rawles said. “It takes three days for the concrete to cure.”
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