Kinoya Road at the Kaudamu Junction will now be closed for another month due to a soil washout which is threatening to be a sinkhole.
Fiji Roads Authority Chief Executive Officer John Hutchinson says the road will be opened by the end of next month and motorists can use Vesivesi Road as an alternative route.
Hutchinson says the road was initially scheduled to reopen last Saturday however it was delayed due to the underground water which washed out the soil and utility services that requires careful control.
Meanwhile, FRA General Manager Network Operations and Maintenance Aram Goes says the sinkhole will be difficult to repair due to the continuous flow of water through the culvert which is under the road.
Goes says the culvert under the road is needed for upstream property drainage.
He says that the 900 millimetre diameter stormwater culvert pipe may have separated at a joint resulting in the washout of soil.
