Janel's company didn't get the contract so I don't have a lot of visibility into it anymore. I've heard that it's quite dramatic to see when you drive through but traffic is moving reasonably well. It's a fairly short pinch point of one lane. They are closing the interstate proactively if there's a flash flood warning - that's possible today.
I went through about 3 weeks ago. It was really unsettling to be driving on the bridge where the severe damage occurred; you're looking through the road deck at some points! The river is quite a different thing now with essentially a lake on the east side of the slide and crazy new flow path on the west. I'm wondering how much dredging work will get done before the spring melt...
Remember that there has always been a fairly significant change in the river due to the power plant that's close to the slide area. Did that change?
The earth beneath our feet is dynamic. We often think of it as being static.
I got a lesson in dynamic earth the day before yesterday. This was a 3.3 magnitude earthquake that was about 10 miles from my house.
Keith Tanner said:Remember that there has always been a fairly significant change in the river due to the power plant that's close to the slide area. Did that change?
It did! The waterline is completely covering the bike/pedestrian trail, and is very close to the lower road deck. There is a LARGE amount of debris that has already been moved off to the side from the many slides but the canyon is only so wide.
Wow. I'm heading to Denver on the train next week, maybe I'll get a good look at this.
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