Emergency water-valve replacement along Rosser Avenue and Ninth Street in Brandon will continue until the end of the month, keeping some road lanes downtown closed in the meantime.

The lane closures will be “off and on” until work wraps up around Oct. 31, the city’s general manager of operations, Todd Burton, said Thursday.

The replacement became necessary after city crews tried to turn off water for a building on a block of Ninth Street, but “the belt did not isolate.” Workers then tried to isolate valves on either side, but that also didn’t work. In total, five valves are in need of replacement.

Burton said the adjacent valves “were working or appear to be working,” but the city was “starting to get into an area now where it would cause us to shut off like six to 10 city blocks downto

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