Workers from the Greater Pottsville Area Sewer Authority and Dallago’s Backhoe Service, Minersville, on Monday continued work to repair a stone arch that collapsed in Pottsville.
“We will be here all day today,” Vincent Riotto, GPASA street crew supervisor, said Monday.
The 19th century stone arch on Fifth and Arch streets collapsed Feb. 17.
On Friday, workers started to repair the arch by placing a 4-foot by 18-foot section of PVC plastic pipe in the approximate 60-foot collapsed area. Three 20-foot sections of pipe will be placed in the water.
On Monday, they were packing in concrete on top of the plastic pipe so it would remain in place.
“This is not one of these jobs that has a time limit,” Riotto said.
Riotto said he did not know why the arch collapsed.
GPASA board member Robert J. Quinn Jr. estimated the job would cost about $60,000 to $70,000, according to The Republican-Herald archives.
The arch collapse is the latest in a string of collapses in the city over the last few years, including a collapse in the 100 block of Howard Avenue in August 2014, a brick arch collapse in the 300 block of Division Street in April 2014 and a stone-arch tunnel collapse in the parking lot at Kentucky Fried Chicken in August 2013, according to newspaper archives.