UPDATE: Manufacturers Road at the Highway 27 interchange has been reopened to all traffic Thursday evening, according to a Chattanooga Department of Transportation news release.
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All lanes on Manufacturers Road between the U.S. Highway 27 overpass and the Highway 27 Southbound on/off ramps have been closed due to a water main break, according to a news release from the Chattanooga Department of Transportation.
Daphne Kirksey, a spokeswoman for Tennessee American Water, said in an emailed statement that a construction crew working for a separate company on a non-Tennessee American Water project accidentally hit a pipe on Manufacturers Road.
"Our crews are working safely and as quickly as possible to complete the repair," Kirksey's statement read.
CDOT says it will be working with Tennessee American Water Co. to establish detours.
In the meantime, all drivers are asked to avoid Manufacturers Road, the release states.
Another water line broke earlier this year and left customers in the Stringer's Ridge area with little or no water.
That break, though much smaller in scale, came less than four months after the largest outage in the company's history, which left some 35,000 Chattanooga connections without water for up to 72 hours in September, due in part to a lack of redundancy in the private company's infrastructure.