NORTHAMPTON — Holyoke Street, which has been closed since fall, is set to reopen in the third week of January.
The street was blocked off to facilitate construction of a new storm sewer, as part of construction for the Valley CDC Lumberyard housing project. This storm sewer will replace the brick Market Street to Mill River storm sewer that has been in place since 1846.
“A new storm sewer’s being built right next to it,” Wayne Feiden, the city’s director of planning sustainability, said of the 19th-century existing sewer.
Once the new storm sewer is online, the old one’s drain will be filled with permeable fill. Its culvert will be preserved.