May 17, 2024 10:30 a.m. 

A section of Northwest Edenbower Boulevard from Northwest Aviation Drive to Northeast Stephens Street in Roseburg will close for two nights as work on a 24-inch water pipe replacement project continues.

A City release said Northwest Edenbower Boulevard between Northwest Aviation Drive and Northeast Stephens Street will close to all traffic between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Monday and Tuesday, as a contractor trenches about 100 feet across the intersection of Stephens Street and Edenbower Boulevard.

Traffic control signs will be in place to detour motorists around the closure. Traffic moving east on Edenbower Boulevard will be required to detour onto Aviation Drive to access Stephens Street. Westbound traffic will detour around the closure by using Northwest Stewart Parkway and Aviation Drive or using Hooker Road to Aviation Drive.

The work is part of a project that began in March to exchange about 4,100 linear feet of 20 inch-diameter steel water transmission main pipe installed in 1934, with new 24-inch diameter ductile iron pipe in the southbound lane of Stephens Street between Isabell Avenue and Newton Creek Road. The project has also required weeknight closures of the southbound lane of Stephens Street.

The work is part of the fourth phase of a long-term project to replace 4.5 miles of aging water transmission pipe primarily in Stephens Street from the Water Treatment Plant to the Reservoir Hill Complex.