ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — The Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County will conduct planned blasting Tuesday afternoon at the Carrier Park cofferdam as part of its ongoing Carrier Bridge Pump Station replacement project.
City officials said blasting is scheduled to begin at about 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at Carrier Park. Motorists and pedestrians are urged to use caution in the areas of Amboy Road and Carrier Park. Traffic in the immediate vicinity will be temporarily halted during blasting operations.
The work is part of MSD’s largest infrastructure project, replacing the Carrier Bridge Pump Station, which was built in 1966 and serves large portions of south and west Buncombe County and north Henderson County. The new station will increase capacity from 22 million gallons per day to 40 million gallons per day, based on projected flows through 2070, and will be expandable to 50 million gallons per day…