PORT ANGELES — Alternating traffic and some water service outages resulted Thursday due to a broken water main on Monroe Road, which was reported around 7:30 a.m.
The Clallam County Public Utility District said water service would be out in the lower Monroe Road area until approximately 5:30 p.m. Thursday. In addition, alternating traffic was set up to protect the PUD crews.
“Traffic will be affected,” water superintendent Tom Martin of the Clallam County PUD wrote in an email. “PUD has traffic control in operation to keep the work crews safe. So far, there has not been traffic congestion.”
A robotic phone call warned Roosevelt Elementary School parents of possible traffic delays during school pickup after a water main on the east side of Monroe Road broke early in the morning.
School buses took an alternate route Thursday afternoon, said Nicole Clark of the PUD general manager’s office.
“The break had nothing to do with the Monroe School deconstruction project,” wrote M. Patsene Dashiell, Port Angeles School District spokeswoman, in a news release.
The break did not interrupt the school day, Dashiell said.
For updates, visit www.clallampud.net.
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