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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A information of a thoroughfare successful Clovis has reopened pursuing a reconstruction task that began successful 2022. This raised a question among Clovis residents: wherefore was Leonard Avenue closed for truthful long?
On Wednesday, Clovis officials announced the postulation closure connected Leonard Avenue northbound of Gettysburg has been lifted. The task did reason successful 2022, but the thoroughfare had to beryllium closed again successful 2023 -but why?
According to the Clovis City Engineer Thad Avery, the operation task connected Leonard Avenue betwixt Gettysburg and Loma Vista was primitively widened with operation by Sept. 30, 2022, erstwhile the roadworthy closure was announced for Aug. 8, 2022, successful a social media post from the city.
However, a fewer months aboriginal successful February 2023, the roadworthy started to neglect on a sewer trench enactment successful the northbound lane. The metropolis and developers started to analyse the cause, and astir March 2023, the failures became important capable that the northbound lane had to beryllium closed for postulation owed to information concerns.
The improvements made to Leonard Avenue were nether warranty by aggregate developers and contractors, but contempt this, Avery says a definite origin of the nonaccomplishment could not beryllium determined.
During this time, Avery the metropolis began to sermon with these entities astir the probe of the nonaccomplishment and however to determination guardant with repairs. However, the discussions took longer than expected due to the fact that of however galore entities were progressive successful the contented and due to the fact that the accusation from the investigations could not find the nonstop origin of the failure.
Avery says the metropolis was not capable to travel to a solution with these entities connected however to determination guardant until aboriginal 2024. Once a hole to the nonaccomplishment was decided, the operation was scheduled to statesman during the summertime months to debar further issues that could hap during bedewed weather.
Lastly, the reconstruction began successful June and was completed earlier this week, with Leonard Avenue northbound of Gettysburg Avenue yet opening to the nationalist connected Wednesday, astir 2 years aft the archetypal closure.
