Hope you don't regularly drive through the intersection at 10th and Hemphill, because it's about to become your least favorite part of town for the next month. The city's shutting down that entire intersection starting Monday for emergency water valve replacement, and they're saying it'll take about four weeks to complete.
This is all part of Atlanta's ongoing water distribution maintenance program, which honestly feels like it never ends. If you live in Home Park, Virginia-Highland, or Midtown and use that intersection to cut between different parts of town, you're going to need to find alternate routes. The work runs Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., so at least you'll get some relief on Sundays and evenings.
What's frustrating is that these 'emergency' infrastructure repairs keep popping up around the city, suggesting our water system is in worse shape than we'd like to admit. At least they're being proactive about fixing it before it becomes a major break that floods the street, but the timing never seems convenient for anyone who actually has to navigate these construction zones.