A North Myrtle Beach boat landing has been closed for months, but there’s good news

The Johnny Causey Boat Landing, which has been closed since March, reopened Thursday afternoon after final inspections by SCDOT.

Tim Collins with the South Carolina Department of Transportation said crews worked through the week to get the landing back open as soon as possible.

“Right now they’re doing inspections under the bridge,” Collins said on Wednesday ahead of the landing reopening. “Possibly by Friday they could be done. … Once the bridge department says it’s good, we will remove the barricades.”

The boat landing is directly underneath the U.S. 17 bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway between North Myrtle Beach and Little River.

Repairs began back in March when concrete was reported to be falling off the side, creating a hazard for cars parked in the the boat landing below. SCDOT shut down the landing on March 27, and it had remained closed through the spring.

At the time, officials said the issue was not structural, so the bridge itself was safe to remain open.

“The structural integrity of the bridge is not impacted, and the bridge is safe for travel,” SCDOT officials said in a tweet from March.

North Myrtle Beach Spokesperson Pat Dowling said in March it wasn’t the first time concrete had fallen off the bridge.

Crews were at work Thursday morning finishing up repairs and making sure the concrete would stay attached to the bridge.

The right, northbound lane was closed Thursday morning as crews were in a crane connected to a truck that lowered underneath the bridge to conduct the inspection.

This story was originally published May 30, 2019 at 12:44 PM.