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Flooding along Wakelee Avenue, which had reopened as of Monday.
UPDATE: North Main Street on Ansonia has been reopened in full as of 6:40 p.m. Monday, according to Ansonia police.
ANSONIA – A detour remains in place for part of North Main Street in Ansonia following heavy rains and flooding throughout the lower Naugatuck Valley on Sunday night (Aug. 18).
According to a Facebook post from the Ansonia Police Department, the floods caused part of a retaining wall to collapse behind the Assumption Church and school. The closure resulting from that collapse remains in place and includes the section of North Main between Main Street and Fourth Street.
Other closed roads from the floods had reopened by Monday morning, including parts of Wakelee Avenue and Franklin Street.
Ansonia was spared the worst of Sunday’s floods, which killed two women in Oxford, stranded over a hundred people at Quarry Walk, and devastated businesses in Seymour. However, the waters still necessitated the closing of Ansonia’s flood gates, which were reopened as of Monday.
The Waterbury line of the Metro North Railroad, which runs through Ansonia, remains suspended in both directions as of Monday afternoon. The Metro North website attributes the closure to a mudslide in Seymour.
Ansonia Emergency Management Director Jared Heon told The Valley Indy on Monday morning that river levels had dropped, and that the city’s emergency operations center was continuing to monitor the situation.
No injuries had been reported in Ansonia as of Monday, Heon said.
You can monitor state road closures at the state CTroads website.
