For the second time in less than a week there’s been a natural gas leak in Charlotte County that authorities say is believed to have been caused by construction work.

This latest one happened near Kings Highway at Midway Boulevard in Punta Gorda just after noon.

Southbound lanes of Kings Highway were blocked between Rampart Boulevard and Suncoast Boulevard but the northbound lanes remained open and detours were in place

There was a leak last Friday at a work site on US 41 at Port Charlotte Boulevard which shut down that road for a couple of hours.