Bradford officials have been monitoring the crumbling section of East Main Street near the Eagles Club, and noted the damage hasn’t progressed.

On Friday, director Chip Comilla said the city’s department of public works crew has been down a few people this summer with vacations and illness. And there are some major projects to tackle.

“Right now, we poured a footer for the Barbour Street wall that caved in,” he said, explaining there was some damage to the area near a bridge on the street, past its intersection with Campus Drive.

“We’re working on getting that footer in. We made a lot of progress this week,” Comilla said.

He added, “We have two big projects and not enough people.”

Last Monday, the DPW crew “saw cut the road (in that section of East Main Street) so we can dig it up,” Comilla said. “We’re going to try to open that up and turn it over to the engineers.”

The city’s engineers will need to determine what is happening and how to fix it.

“When we cut it, we went down 20 inches,” Comilla said. “We pulled up some mud and things like that. It didn’t look any worse than what it was before.”

He explained when his crew has a chance, they need to finish opening up that section to make it available to the engineers.

“Being July 27, I don’t know if we’ll run out of time,” Comilla said. “The engineers are going to have to come up with a plan, and we’ll have to come up with a money source.”

Fixing the problem may be more than the city’s DPW can do.

“It will probably have to be contracted out because we don’t have the equipment,” he said.

And that would take time, too, possibly moving any fix into next year.

“The worst case would be we’d have to put up Jersey barriers keeping people away from it,” he said. The damage is in the parking lane and wouldn’t interfere with regular use of the road.