High winds in Glenwood Canyon Wednesday forced crews to halt helicopter work on a rockfall mitigation project that was expected to also close Interstate 70 during the day Thursday.
As a result, I-70 will be open through the canyon Thursday and the Colorado Department of Transportation will need to reschedule the work to install four new, heavy-duty rockfall fences on the northern canyon wall just west of Hanging Lake Tunnel. The fences are built to protect the location of a major rockfall in February, which led to a nearly weeklong closure of the canyon, the longest since I-70 was constructed through Glenwood Canyon 24 years ago.
Tracy Trulove, CDOT Region 3 communications manager, said the work might be scheduled for the second week of August. And while the team hoped to use only two days of closures for the project, the contract allows for up to four days, she said.
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