{"id":6088,"date":"2018-07-19T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2018-07-19T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:14:20","slug":"irrigation-line-break-prompts-work-on-englewood-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/irrigation-line-break-prompts-work-on-englewood-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrigation Line Break Prompts Work on Englewood Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Work is underway on a section of Englewood Avenue due to a sink hole that developed following an irrigation line break.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Yakima Tieton Irrigation District had a main line break this morning, Thursday, June 19<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup> that resulted in a closure of Englewood Avenue between 40<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup> and 44<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup> Avenues. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">At about 1:00 pm today, a sinkhole of about 3-feet in diameter developed in the roadway. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Yakima Tieton crews filled the sinkhole and Englewood re-opened at about 3:00 pm today. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Starting at about 6:30 am tomorrow, Friday, the Yakima Tieton Irrigation District crew will repair the sinkhole. Englewood Avenue will not be closed tomorrow, however, a turn lane will be used for westbound traffic in the area of 40<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup> Avenue and Englewood Avenue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The irrigation district will provide traffic control during the work on Englewood Avenue tomorrow. It&#8217;s expected that work will wrap up by about 3:00 pm tomorrow.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Motorists are reminded that the speed limit through all traffic-related work zones within the City of Yakima is 20 miles-per-hour.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">During the project, traffic delays in the area are likely to occur. Drivers should use alternate routes until the project is completed.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Access to businesses in the project area will be maintained as best as possible.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As always, the schedule for this type of a project is subject to change daily dependent on weather, equipment failure, and emergencies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For additional information about this project, contact Streets and Traffic Operations Manager Joe Rosenlund at 576-6430.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Englewood-Avenue-News-Release-1.pdf\">Englewood Avenue &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is underway on a section of Englewood Avenue due to a sink hole that developed following an irrigation line break. The Yakima Tieton Irrigation District had a main line break this morning, Thursday, June 19th that resulted in a closure of Englewood Avenue between 40th and 44th Avenues. At about 1:00 pm today, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6095,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}