All northbound lanes of Interstate 25 re-opened Saturday, nine days after a 5-foot-wide concrete conduit broke and spilled more than 2 million gallons of water that created a 40-by-40-foot sinkhole.
The sinkhole caused massive traffic delays and left thousands of northbound drivers scrambling to find routes around it.
“It was a brutal week, but everything is open now,” said Stacey Stegman, a Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman, on Saturday.
Denver Water crews worked 12-hour shifts around the clock since last week to first siphon water out of the deep sinkhole before cutting away the broken water main and repairing it.
CDOT then repaired the site. CDOT officials said some asphalt work would continue on a road barrier on a frontage road near the sinkhole site, but that work wouldn’t result in any traffic delays.
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