After months of being closed, Carter Street finally re-opened this past week. Workers finished up the repaving of a small stretch of the street on Thursday of this week. Carter Street runs from Main Street to Harrison Street and it's a major access corridor for East Acres.
The street was closed off early this year due to a water line replacement. Initially, it was thought that the closure would be very brief.
But it turned out that the water line connector under Carter Street was so old --- circa 1938 --- that the pipeline contractor encountered repeated obstacles.
"With a pipeline this old, you never know what you're going to find," one of the workers on the pipeline project told The Era-Leader back in late March.
The pipeline project was launched in order to improve water pressure at Riverside Medical Center and other nearby buildings in the Medical District.
Now the pipeline project is almost finished, and paving over the gap at Carter Street was one of the last items to get checked off.
Nearby residents, who have been very gracious about the lengthy closure, are undoubtedly celebrating the re-opening of the street.
