Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown announced today that Horton street is now open to traffic. The reopening was delayed several times.
Horton Street has been closed since this summer, when a 20-foot-deep sinkhole opened under Horton Street on June 25, shortly before work was set to begin on an emergency repair project along the sewer/stormwater line. A second sinkhole opened about 200 feet away from the original one. That was accompanied by both a water main break and a gas leak.
Both sinkholes followed heavy rainstorms.
– Lydia McFarlane