Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
On Tuesday, Middletown Township officials reopened a road damaged in July flash flooding.
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Silver Lake Road was repaired in recent weeks and reopened Tuesday after it was resurfaced. The barriers that blocked it for several weeks were removed and vehicles traveled over the smooth pavement.
Township officials were forced to repair and repave part of the two-lane road after July 15 flash flooding badly damaged the pavement near the bridge over the Core Creek.
Around the roadway, the township added large stones as a flood mitigation measure.
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The same stretch of Silver Lake Road was damaged and had to be rebuilt following Hurricane Ida in 2021.
Isaac Kessler, the township engineer, explained last month that part of the problem is that the Bucks County-owned bridge over Core Creek isn’t wide enough to have a large amount of stormwater go under it, so the rushing stormwater goes around it, causing damage to the township-owned roadway.
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In the wake of the most recent flooding, county crews inspected the bridge and found no damage to it, according to Bucks County Director of Policy and Communications Eric Nagy.
The county-owned bridge was constructed in the 1990s and carries about 500 vehicles each day prior to the closure, according to public data.
Last month, Sue Schafer, who lives near Silver Lake Road, told LevittownNow.com she saw the force of the water as it rushed toward Core Creek Park during the flooding.
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“It was like a raging river,” she said.
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