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Highway 29 Project In Century Halted After Discovery Of An Unknown Water Main
April 21, 2023
Work has come to a temporary halt on a Highway 29 construction in Century after the discovery of an unknown water main that must be relocated.
Early this year, two northbound travel lanes and the center turn lane were closed between Harries Boulevard and East Cottage Street with traffic shifted into just two lanes. It was that a normal traffic pattern would return by the end of April, but for now that’s on hold until about the end of May.
“There will be extension of the work timeframe. During excavation, an unknown Town of Century water main was discovered,” Kohen Johns Brannon, public information specialist for the Florida Department of Transportation, told NorthEscambia.com on Thursday. “The water main is expected to be relocated in approximately two weeks.”
Brannon said the contractor is scheduled to be on site next week doing preliminary work to facilitate the relocation of the pipe. Construction on the resurfacing project will continue after the water main is relocated.
Century’s engineer said the problem pipe is a 2-inch water main, and there are no service disruptions anticipated during the work.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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9 Responses to “Highway 29 Project In Century Halted After Discovery Of An Unknown Water Main”
I just figured the cones were permanent.
Let’s hope it isn’t a lead pipe.
Show me any older community in America, and I’ll show you underground infrastructure that was not mapped.
Can’t hold this one over Century’s head. This could happen anywhere.
That is the line that carries the Free Water.
With Century it reminds me of a Rodney Dangerfield saying.”Its like a two story house,you get one story when you buy it two weeks later you get another story.Water has ran down highway 29 by the power substation since I was a teenager now I’m in my fifties.No worries they are making it up every month when gas and water bills are paid.
David that line has probably been around longer than records.
D.H.Green.
It is common practice that in any civil engineering project that the inspector or project manager marks up the blueprints to reflect the installation as it was actually done.
Have read many anecdotes here about the town in question and am unsure that “understanding” is even a thing up there. But yeah, you always call for a Sunshine 811 spot before you dig. Then the utility paints or flags everything underground that they understand that they own. In the end the failures get paid for by the taxpayer.
Century, always on top of things.
People often misunderstand the need for good records.