Kathleen Road northwest of Lakeland will be closed about a month longer than planned

Kathleen Road in northwest of Lakeland will be closed about a month longer than originally planned.

In a Monday afternoon news release, Polk County said the closure from north of Block Prine Road to Raulerson Road will continue until Nov. 22, "to complete drainage installations and road reconstruction postponed by engineering revisions and weather-related delays."

Kathleen Road was closed to through traffic in May, and the county said it would take five months to complete drainage installations and road reconstruction for a new subdivision.

The county's official detour during construction sent southbound Kathleen Road traffic east on Raulerson Road to North Campbell Road, then south to West Campbell Road, and west back to Kathleen Road. Northbound traffic would detour in the reverse order.

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But West Campbell Road was closed for about a week , much less than anticipated, for emergency repair work on a sanitary sewer lift station just west of Jordan Heights Drive that failed from excessive stormwater during Hurricane Milton. That created a large hole that undermined part of West Campbell Road. The closure created a wrinkle in the detour plan.

Bill Skelton of the Polk County Roads and Drainage Division said Monday that West Campbell reopened on Oct. 18.

This article originally appeared on The Ledger: Kathleen Road northwest of Lakeland will be closed about a month longer than planned