Yuma road work closes Avenue 5E, slows traffic on key corridors

Avenue 5E is closed between 32nd Street and 30th Place for a water-line repair expected to last through mid-July. Drivers moving through that part of town will need detours for several weeks, adding delays to trips that normally cut across the west side.

Crews will begin sewer manhole rehabilitation on 32nd Street between Catalina Drive and Arizona Avenue on June 29. That work will require a right-lane closure and is expected to finish in early July, squeezing one of Yuma’s busier corridors just as the Avenue 5E closure is already forcing traffic to reroute nearby.

Avenue C is also under construction between 20th Street and 24th Street. Beginning June 15, an Arizona Department of Transportation contractor started installing ADA ramps and a HAWK pedestrian beacon on Avenue C and the Central Drain Pathway. Sidewalks on both sides of the Central Drain were closed during the project, and motorists should expect intermittent lane closures until August.

Farther east, Redondo Avenue remained part of another utility project. A private contractor working with the city began installing a water-distribution line from 5th Street and Gila Street to Redondo Center Drive on June 8, and the work closed Redondo Center Drive between Giss Parkway and the Interstate 8 eastbound ramps.

Earlier city notices closed Avenue 5E to through traffic between 30th Place and 38th Street in phases, and a June notice closed 5E between 32nd Street and 34th Street through mid-August during sewer work. The city’s wastewater collection system includes more than 350 miles of sanitary sewer collection lines and force mains and more than 6,000 sanitary sewer manholes.