{"id":7003,"date":"2020-04-11T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T18:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=7003"},"modified":"2020-04-11T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T18:22:08","slug":"city-of-lakeland-crews-will-replace-unservicable-sewer-manholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/04\/11\/city-of-lakeland-crews-will-replace-unservicable-sewer-manholes\/","title":{"rendered":"CITY OF LAKELAND CREWS WILL REPLACE UNSERVICABLE SEWER MANHOLES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3400\" height=\"2200\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?fit=1024%2C663&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?w=3400&amp;ssl=1 3400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?resize=1024%2C663&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?resize=1536%2C994&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?resize=2048%2C1325&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?w=2220&amp;ssl=1 2220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Downtown_MH_Replacements.png?w=3330&amp;ssl=1 3330w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A series of existing sewer manholes in the Lakeland downtown area are no longer serviceable for&nbsp;maintenance or rehabilitation&nbsp;so they will be replaced starting on April 20<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp;City crews will&nbsp;begin the manhole replacement on Massachusetts Avenue (adjacent to City Hall) on April 20<sup>th<\/sup>. At this location,&nbsp;traffic will be rerouted&nbsp;around the work zone&nbsp;and&nbsp;one lane of travel&nbsp;will be&nbsp;open in each direction.&nbsp;Crews anticipate work&nbsp;beginning&nbsp;on April 27<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;for the second manhole replacement&nbsp;located at&nbsp;S. Kentucky Avenue between E. Main Street and E. Lemon Street.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;third manhole replacement&nbsp;is slated to start April 29<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at&nbsp;S. Tennessee Avenue between E. Main Street and E. Lemon Street. The work duration is expected to be approximately&nbsp;two days per manhole replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Kentucky Avenue and Tennessee Avenue manhole&nbsp;closures will require&nbsp;the roadway to&nbsp;be closed to&nbsp;vehicular traffic adjacent to the work area.&nbsp;Pedestrian traffic will not be&nbsp;impacted&nbsp;at any of the work areas. Traffic control signage will be placed at each location&nbsp;during the construction phases.&nbsp;City Manager Tony Delgado said, \u201cWe certainly apologize about any inconvenience but this work needs to be done. Our team requested that it be moved up because of the&nbsp;reduced activity in the downtown area due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Completing this work&nbsp;now&nbsp;will&nbsp;&nbsp;be considerably less interruptive to traffic&nbsp;and business&nbsp;flow.\u201d He added, \u201cIt is our goal to have the needed infrastructure improvements complete and ready for a vibrant downtown once we are rid of COVID-19 &#8211; We like many in our community look forward to that day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City of Lakeland was incorporated January 1885 and has grown to become one of the largest inland communities in Florida.&nbsp; Lakeland continues to grow with the current population over 100,000. It has been designated a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area by the US Census Bureau for over 30 years.&nbsp; With tourist attractions and gulf beaches only an hour away, Lakeland capitalizes on its ideal central Florida location along the I-4 corridor.&nbsp; The City owns and operates Lakeland Electric, the third largest publicly owned utility in Florida and it was one of the first to offer power in the Sunshine State 115 years ago.&nbsp;For additional information about the City of Lakeland, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakelandgov.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.lakelandgov.net<\/a>.&nbsp; Citizens are also invited to follow the City on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, Snapchat and Nextdoor.&nbsp; Citizens can find the City of Lakeland on these social&nbsp;media&nbsp;platforms by searching lakelandgov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of existing sewer manholes in the Lakeland downtown area are no longer serviceable for&nbsp;maintenance or rehabilitation&nbsp;so they will be replaced starting on April 20th.&nbsp;City crews will&nbsp;begin the manhole&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}