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NCDOT: Repairs to Lystra Road in Chatham will be done soon

By Richard Stradling

Updated June 14, 2016 5:29 AM

An excavator frames a five foot deep by 20-foot wide sinkhole on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016. The sinkhole opened up the day before across the eastbound lane of Lystra Road between Farrington Road and Jack Bennett Road in northern Chatham county forcing NC DOT to close the popular connector road between Farrington Road and Highway 15-501. A Chatham DOT road crew was also dispatched Tuesday morning to a reported second sinkhole opening across Jones Ferry Road near River Road a few miles to the west of the Lystra Road sinkhole. Harry Lynch hlynch@newsobserver.com

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Recent rains have delayed repair work on Lystra Road in northern Chatham County, but the state Department of Transportation says the end of the project is in sight.

The giant sinkhole that forced the road to close last winter should be repaired by the end of June, DOT says.

Lystra has been closed between Farrington Point and Jack Bennett roads since Jan. 18, when the pavement collapsed after two 5-foot culverts connecting two sections of Jordan Lake gave way.

The $2.2 million repair project entails replacing the culverts with an aluminum pipe 12 feet in diameter, relocating an underground county water line and repairing the road.

Lystra was expected to reopen this Friday. Now the contractor expects it will happen by June 30, though it could be sooner.

This story was originally published June 13, 2016 at 5:10 PM with the headline "NCDOT: Repairs to Lystra Road in Chatham will be done soon."

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