Water Line Work Across Cumberland Ave. to Begin Tonight

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Kristin Farley
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Water Line Work Across Cumberland Ave. to Begin Tonight

Posted: 02/01/2016
Cumberland ConnectFrom 10 p.m. today (Monday, Feb. 1), until 6 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, Cumberland Avenue will be closed between 19th Street and Montcastle Street as a Knoxville Utilities Board crew installs water line infrastructure across Cumberland.

The night-time closure will be repeated at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, with the work to be completed by 6 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3.

Meanwhile, through 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, North 20th Street will be closed between Cumberland and White avenues as crews install new storm drains.

The work was rescheduled from last week to this week to take advantage of better weather and warmer termperatures.

The infrastructure upgrades are part of the City of Knoxville’s $17 million Cumberland Avenue reconstruction, to be completed by August 2017.

The reconstruction will change the existing four-lane Cumberland between 22nd and 17th streets to a three-lane cross section with a raised median and left-turn lanes at intersections. An earlier phase of work on the western end of Cumberland focused on improving traffic flow between the Alcoa Highway ramps and 22nd Street; that phase finished at the end of 2015, on time and under budget.

The City’s investment in infrastructure and streetscape upgrades will create a more attractive, safer, pedestrian-friendly Cumberland Avenue Corridor.

More information is available at www.CumberlandConnect.com, on the Cumberland Connect Facebook page, facebook.com/CumberlandConnect, and on the Cumberland Connect phone app.