GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) — Westbound South Airport Road just west of Park Drive is closed Wednesday with no estimated reopening date as crews work to repair a broken sewer line, while eastbound traffic remains open.<\/p>\n
Right now, there’s a sanitary sewer overflow along South Airport Road.<\/p>\n
The Department of Public Works was contacted Tuesday.<\/p>\n
This, after sewage was seen coming up through the pavement on the west side of South Airport Road between Park Drive and Cass Road.<\/p>\n
The director of Public Works says sewage failures are not uncommon, but usually not this catastrophic.<\/p>\n
Crews are working to break the road up further to get a closer look at the issue.<\/p>\n
“We don’t see it very often, but sometimes you will see a sewer main break, a water main break,\u201d Grand Traverse County Road Commission Manager Dan Watkins said. \u201cUnfortunately, a lot of utilities run underneath the roadways, and when they break, they take out the roads.”<\/p>\n
A major concern for crews is diverting the flow of sewage so it does not go into the Boardman River at the bottom of the hill.<\/p>\n
The Grand Traverse County Health Department issued a Level 4 no-body-contact advisory for the water in Boardman Lake and the Boardman\/Ottaway River while this is happening.<\/p>\n
The County Road Commission says it does not know how long it’ll take to repair the sewer and road.<\/p>\n
Drivers can expect South Airport Road to be completely closed Wednesday going westbound and restricted to one lane going east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) — Westbound South Airport Road just west of Park Drive is closed Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-826481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}