MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo.—Highway travel west of Manitou Springs will be restricted over the next two months for road work prompted by flash floods last summer.
The Colorado Springs Gazette reported Wednesday ( ) the $1.4 million project will install a larger culvert under U.S. 24. The work will require multiple lane closures.
The culvert is near Waldo Canyon, namesake of a disastrous 2012 wildfire that charred mountainsides around Manitou Springs and led to erosion and flash flooding.
Flash floods repeatedly swamped the area around U.S. 24 west of Manitou Springs in 2013.
The Colorado Department of Transportation says the new culvert is 24 feet wide and 10 feet high, about 10 times larger than the current one.
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Information from: The Gazette,
