Putnam County Government: Traffic Detour At Sodom Road Bridge

Press release from the Putnam County Government:

December 2, 2021

Immediate Release

Putnam County Executive
MaryEllen Odell
845-808-1001

December 2, 2021

Sodom Road Detour

The traffic detour at Sodom Road Bridge will be reinstituted for about
three weeks starting Monday Dec. 6 as NYSEG reroutes the gas line that
feeds Brewster Village.
This is a NYSEG project, not a Putnam County Highway Department
project. In accordance with its NYC DEP permits, NYSEG must
decommission the gas line that spans the East Branch of the Croton
River and reattach the line to the bridge, where it had been before
construction started.
“It’s unfortunate that NYSEG couldn’t get its portion of the work done
on schedule and that drivers will be inconvenienced,” County Executive
MaryEllen Odell said. “NYSEG’s gas line, however, is essential to
residents and it’s best that the work is done safely and completely
now.”
The gas line reattachment was originally supposed to be accomplished
in accordance with the county contractor’s schedule and finished by
mid-November. When NYSEG couldn’t make the deadline, it delayed
the project until January. Rather than further inconvenience local
drivers who were detoured onto I-684 and Route 22 while the bridge
was closed, the county highway department reopened the bridge last
month as soon as its work was complete. Then, this week, NYSEG
notified the county highway department that it had changed its
schedule again and would begin work in the week of December 6.
NYSEG now plans to have the permanent gas main relocated by
midweek and the road reopened by December 23.

This press release was produced by the Putnam County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.