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$4.7 Million Highway 29 Project In Century Remains At A Standstill Over A Water Pipe
May 7, 2023
Work on a $4.7 million Highway 29 construction in Century remains at a standstill weeks discovery of an unmapped water pipe that must be relocated.
Early this year, two northbound travel lanes and the center turn lane were closed between Hatties 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 that was put on hold until about the end of May.
What the Florida Department of Transportation termed an “unknown Town of Century water main” was discovered under the roadway during excavation. Two and a half weeks ago, FDOT told us that it should be relocated in about two weeks.
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.
Pictured: Highway 29 traffic in Century remains at two lanes during a construction zone as seen Saturday afternoon, May 6. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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11 Responses to “$4.7 Million Highway 29 Project In Century Remains At A Standstill Over A Water Pipe”
It’s going to be like this for more than a year most likely. FDOT is not known for speed.
Actually good points about hurricane evac. Another route should be in order regardless.
East West I10. First.
The speed limit is 30 MPH through here anyway.
Actually again, the traffic slow down is a good thing.
It’s not bothering me at all.
Even for pedestrians crossing the street., the barrels in the middle are nice.
Slow down.
What Are They Waiting On……I See They Jumped right On The one running on Sunday. I Guess Somebody has to run thru their barricade and get hurt before they fix the PROBLEM.
Why can’t they work on other sections while they wait. Why is this even stopping all of this work when there is so much more to do. Locate the pipe the rest of the way and get to work
@ citizen
I guess you love the added risk every time you take your family through this section also.
With hurricane season just over three weeks away, maybe they should just fill in the hole and patch the road, move the orange barrels out of the way and open the road back up. With the road down to a single lane if Pensacola and surrounding areas are evacuated, traffic going north will be backed up to Molino. Maybe, just maybe during the six months of hurricane season, the people that need to make the decision about the pipe will be able to make that decision. Some of you may remember several years ago before highway 113 was four laned, it was turned into a one-way road during a hurricane evacuation.
I love how this has slowed down traffic. No worries.
Be happy when it’s finished.
As a retired plumber, seems the logical thing was to temperary run the line to the outside easement. wonder if company is being paid for the delay. Betting it is.
Wow! And Hurricane season starts soon. I can just see this bottle neck should south Escambia have to evacuate. Just saying
How many weeks now have gone by with no movement by the town to fix its own problem? This should be a one or two day fix. But not surprising at all by Century standards.
didn’t we read about this a couple weeks ago. it’s not like we don’t see it every day. As usual nothing gets done in Century without a can of worms popping up.