Highway 903 near a busy junction with Highway 125 outside the town of Halifax will be closed in both directions on Monday for a drainage pipe replacement.

Maintenance crews from the North Carolina Department of Transportation plan to begin the closure at 8 a.m. and hope to complete the project and repave the road before reopening it by 6 p.m. the same day. They will replace a metal pipe that has begun to fail.

A detour will send drivers onto Highway 125, Reese’s Store Road and Highway 301.