Buffalo Street in the Village of Bergen is closed for emergency repairs.
DPW chief Joe Chimino said a collapsing culvert buried under the street is presenting a safety problem for cars or trucks that might pass over the roadway.
"It's just a small hole right now, about 8 inches, but I can get my arm down in there," Chimino said. "I'm afraid some car or truck is going to come down and it's going to collapse and it's going to put somebody through a windshield."
The culvert is about 100 feet from Lake Street, Chimino said.
Both lanes of traffic need to be closed, he said, because he can't get his backhoe into the confined space otherwise.
He hopes to have a new drain installed and the road re-opened to traffic by 2:45 p.m., when school buses need to pass through the area again.
