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Standing water closes Lake Road
Comments 0 | Recommend 0Lake Road has been closed to traffic south of Havelock due to standing water on half of the road near the Carteret/Craven county line.
According to David Livingston, N.C. Department of Transportation maintenance engineer for Carteret County, about 50 feet of water covers half of the two-lane road about one half mile south of the Craven/Carteret county line.
“The water’s over top of one lane and its in one lane,” Livingston said. “In theory you could open one lane but we elected to close it to avoid anyone having a head on collision.”
Motorists who usually take the road will notice a barricade in the southbound lane of Lake Road at its intersection with Greenfield Heights Boulevard, Miller Boulevard, and the railroad tracks.
The duration of the closure is unclear.
“It just depends on how long it takes the water to clear,” he said. “We’re thinking it might be by early morning tomorrow.”
Livingston said that West Fire Tower Road had to be closed earlier today off N.C. 58.
“We had a real bad washout there,” he said. West Fire Tower Road may be open by noon Friday.
The high water is all due to rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ida that have fallen on eastern North Carolina for the past two days.
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