City Of New Orleans: Two-Week Closure At 7200-7500 Blocks Of Leake Avenue For Waterline Repair

New Orleans LA

16 June, 2022

11:09 AM

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Press release from the City of New Orleans: June 14, 2022 NEW ORLEANS — Beginning today, June 14, weather permitting, the City of New Orleans Department of Public Works contractor, Hard Rock Construction, LLC, will close the 7200 to 7500 blocks of Leake Avenue to vehicular traffic for approximately two weeks to conduct a waterline repair. Public safety is our priority; barricades and traffic detours will be placed on Broadway and Magazine streets to direct traffic toward St. Charles and South Carrollton avenues, as well as St. Charles Avenue at South Carrollton Avenue to direct traffic toward Henry Clay Avenue. Residents in the area were notified through a neighborhood canvass. The Black Pearl East Carrollton Group A project is scheduled to be completed in summer 2022, weather permitting. In general, the contractor is working from 7 a.m. until sunset for up to seven days per week. Since May 2018, DPW has completed 99 projects with an estimated value of $282 million. Today, 55 roadwork projects are under construction, with an estimated value of nearly $593 million. Please visit www.roadwork.nola.gov for more information. Questions about this project or RoadworkNOLA should be directed to 504.658.ROAD (7623) or [email protected]. To better serve our residents with more timely communication, RoadworkNOLA is in the process of building our distribution list to provide important construction updates via text. To sign up, text ROADWORK to 77295, or go to ready.nola.gov/alerts to create a whole profile and select the "roadwork" alert list. This press release was produced by the City of New Orleans. The views expressed here are the author's own.