Longboat pipe construction complete

A paving contractor completed pavement repairs to Gulf of Mexico Drive just north of Bay Isles Road Monday, and the concrete barrier construction zone was dismantled today.

The section of the road was under construction for a week while a procedure to repair a 50-foot section of a leaky, corroding wastewater pipe was performed last week.

A hired contractor and the Longboat Key Public Works Department sent a small machine into the pipe to scrub the walls of it before placing a new pipe lining over the old pipe.

The life expectancy of that new section of repaired pipe is 50 to 75 years.

For Longboat Key motorists, the $30,000 repair also means that Gulf of Mexico Drive will not need to be torn up to replace the pipe.

A final asphalt layer and permanent markings to Gulf of Mexico Drive in that area will be performed in 30 days to complete the repair.

Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected].