A COLLAPSED SEWER LINE CONTINUES TO HINDER TRAFFIC IN THE AREA OF CENTRAL AVENUE AND RIO GRANDE IN ALBUQUERQUE. DAVID MORRIS WITH THE WATER UTILITY AUTHORITY SAYS THEY HAD HOPED TO HAVE THE WORK WRAPPED UP BY MONDAY.
HOWEVER THEY RAN INTO A PROBLEM WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED THE BAD SEWER LINE WAS A WORKING LINE, NOT AN ABANDONED LINE AS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT. THEY THEN REALIZED THEY WERE DEALING WITH AN ACTIVE LINE, WHICH COMPLICATES MATTERS.
MORRIS SAYS IT SHOULD TAKE ABOUT A WEEK FOR THE WORK TO BE COMPLETED. IN THE MEANTIME, NORTHBOUND RIO GRANDE REMAINS CLOSED AT CENTRAL.