MUSCATINE, Iowa – A one block section of Pine Street, from 7th to 8th streets, will be closed to traffic beginning Monday, Sept. 16, as KE Flatworks, Inc., begins the pavement restoration process as part Phase 4B of the West Hill Sanitary and Storm Sewer Separation Project.
Drivers are asked to avoid the area and find alternate routes of travel. A detour for parishioners of St. Mary & Mathias Parrish has been established.
PORTION OF 8TH STREET TO REOPEN – The 200 block of West 8th Street is now open to traffic as KE Flatworks, Inc., pulled back the barricades to just west of the Sycamore Street intersection Thursday, Sept. 12. Sycamore Street was reopened to traffic several weeks ago.
City of Muscatine project managers anticipate that work on Iowa Avenue along with work on the Iowa Avenue and 8th Street intersection will be completed by Monday, Sept. 23. If the timetable is not delayed by weather, KE Flatworks, Inc., will pull back the 8th Street barricades to just west of the Iowa Avenue intersection and open Iowa Avenue and 8th Street to the Iowa Avenue intersection for traffic.
The Phase 4B detour along 7th Street will remain in effect as work continues on the project west of the Iowa Avenue intersection.