River Road is set to reopen to traffic Monday after having been closed since this past fall after a 200-foot section collapsed into the Housatonic River below. Beginning Monday, the town plans to close Purchase Brook Road for a major culvert replacement project, making the reopening of River Road even more pressing. Voters approved the appropriation of $600,000 for the emergency repair work along River Road in June. Southbury First Selectman Jeffrey A. Manville said early estimates to rebuild River Road are between $10 and $20 million, or even higher. The hope, he said, is that Southbury will receive assistance from, for example, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Leonard said the town is working closely with the Southbury Inland Wetlands Commission, as well as First Light Power, the Connecticut Department of Environmental and Energy Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers.
Southbury’s River Road set to reopen Monday after last fall’s collapse