HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – Although this is not construction season along the Lakeshore, the orange barrels will be prominent on a downtown Holland street this week.
Holland Board of Public Works crews have blocked off Central Avenue between 9th and 10th streets due to a leak in the newly installed snowmelt system. Workers will try to locate the source of that problem and repair it before reopening the street to traffic, a process that may take through the end of this week.
The leak is in an eight million-dollar expansion of Holland’s snowmelt system that took place the last two summers, an expansion made possible with the impending switch over by the BPW to the new 145-megawatt, natural gas-fueled power plant near the Eastern Gateway that should be online by mid-February.
In addition, BPW crews have been called to Country Club Road at Birdie Lane, between Legion Park and East 8th Street, on a report of a broken watermain. That area is also closed off to motorists until repairs are made and a gravel surface can be established to handle traffic, which should be sometime on Thursday.
