Major Danville thoroughfare closed for weeks; traffic delays expected

DANVILLE — A stretch of one in all this city’s main thoroughfares closed Thursday and can stay blocked for a number of weeks as crews work to interchange a broken drainage culvert.

The closure of Diablo Street, from Alameda Diablo to Avenida Diablo, is predicted to trigger important disruption to each day commutes. Solely college buses and emergency autos will probably be allowed on the highway that connects Diablo and Blackhawk residents to Interstate 680.

The Diablo Group Providers District intends to shut the intersection of Avenida Nueva at Diablo Street to interchange the outdated drainage culvert simply east of Alameda Diablo.

Engineers inspected the culvert pipe in January and located it to be flattening, inflicting slope erosion and a dip on the floor of the highway. The present culvert pipe has reached the tip of its 60-year life expectancy and has been closely broken by winter storms, officers mentioned.

The challenge will contain digging up Diablo Street, setting up a brand new culvert onsite and putting in it. That's anticipated to take about 21 days. Crews will probably be working 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day, however the highway will probably be closed for the complete length of the challenge.

“The target of this challenge is to maintain journey on Diablo Street protected and protect the integrity of the City’s drainage system,” Jenn Starnes, a spokesperson for the city of Danville, mentioned in a press release.

A full highway closure, between Alameda Diablo and Avenida Nueva, will start on March 23. 2023. The challenge is important to keep up protected journey on Diablo Street and integrity of the City drainage system. (Courtesy of City of Danville) 

Whereas the highway is closed, staff additionally plan to chop down greater than 20 eucalyptus timber close to Alameda Diablo which have develop into prone to falling because of latest rain and wind storms.

Throughout the work, a bit of Diablo Street between Fairway Drive and Alameda Diablo will probably be configured to solely permit for one-way visitors.

Officers have created a detour map of the world with urged alternate routes for east and westbound journey to keep away from the challenge space. These detours embody taking Camino Tassajara, Blackhawk Street and Sycamore Valley Street.

Updates relating to the challenge can be found on the city of Danville’s web site.