Concord Road will be closed at Lorimer Road this week while Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities installs a section of new 16-inch water pipe. The closing is planned from Thursday at 6 p.m. until sometime Saturday night. However, the road will be open during rush hours Friday. Detour info below and on map.

Concord Road will be closed at Lorimer Road. Lorimer Road will be closed between Concord Road and Chairman Blake Lane.

The street will be open rush hours Friday, between 6 and 9 a.m. and 4 and 6 p.m. Crews hope to have the pipe in service and road repaved by Saturday night, Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities said.

The utility work comes in advance of a planned resurfacing of Concord Road this spring/summer. The state Department of Transportation said last month it will repave Concord Road from Main Street to the East Rocky River Road roundabout. East Rocky River also will be resurfaced from Concord Road to the Cabarrus County line. (See March 9, 2010, “NCDOT to repave Concord, E. Rocky River roads.”

DETOUR

Westbound traffic on Concord Road into town will be detoured left onto College Drive, right onto Lorimer Road, and left onto Chairman Blake Lane, reaching Main Street at the CVS.

Drivers wishing to go east on Concord will detour onto Chairman Blake Lane at the CVS, east on Lorimer, left on College Drive, and onto Concord Road.

CUM said parking will be restricted on Chairman Blake Lane starting on Thursday until the work is completed.