By Annette Espinoza
The Denver Post
All northbound lanes of Interstate 25 opened today, nine days after a 5-foot-wide concrete conduit broke and spilled more than 2 million gallons of water that resulted in a 40-by-40 foot sinkhole.
The sinkhole caused the freeway to be closed for 10 miles south of it and left thousands of northbound drivers scrambling to find other routes to commute around it.
“It was a brutal week but everything is open now,” said Stacy 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 they could begin 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.
Annette Espinoza: 303-954-1655 or aespinoza@denverpost.com
