DjangoFest Northwest visitors and Langley residents had to maneuver around a closed Camano Avenue on Wednesday and Thursday after a water line broke, flooding the street and causing the road to buckle.

The flooding occurred where Camano Avenue curves next to Whidbey Island Center for the Arts and Sixth Street, which is currently hosting the gypsy jazz festival. The road opened back up Thursday afternoon around 3 p.m.

Whidbey Telecom subcontractors poked a hole in the water line around 2 p.m. Wednesday when they were installing fiberoptic cables. The hole flooded the road and hollowed out a large area underneath the street.

Construction crews were able to restore the leak area and fill the hollowed out space with a concrete mix. “There was a lake here yesterday (Wednesday),” Stan Berryman, Director of Public Works for the city of Langley, said. “The response was fast and everything was done by 6 p.m. Wednesday.”

Langley Mayor Tim Callison said the subcontractors were working with outdated city maps.

The broken water line left the Langley Motel and nearby neighborhoods without water for roughly two hours. Water was restored to the surrounding areas by 4:30 p.m.

Buckles in the road remain for the time being. The city plans to repair the buckles when they repave Camano Avenue in the coming months. Callison said a temporary patch will be installed over the buckle in the next few weeks.