Posted on 06/09/2024 10:16:41 AM PDT by Drew68
After two days with a mudslide and landslide, Wyoming State Highway 22 over Teton Pass has “catastrophically failed” and is expected to be closed for the long-term, according to the Wyoming Department of Transportation.
On Thursday, the road was temporarily closed after eight-inch cracks developed in the roadway at milepost 12.8.
Department crews and a contracted team from Evans Construction started working in the region to “construct a detour around the damage, but the landslide continued to move, taking out the whole road,” the department reports.
On Friday, due to “continued movement, the crews had been working to remove asphalt from the roadway in an effort to minimize the weight on the unstable ground and reduce the driving force pushing the movement,” according to the department.
They intended to reconfigure the road closer to the mountain “in shoe fly detour configuration,” prior to the roadway’s total failure. No crew members were injured or equipment damaged in the landslide.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation also reported Saturday morning that Friday’s “mudslide at milepost 15 on Teton Pass, has breached the roadway with mud and debris, overwhelming the channeled drainage ditch and culvert.”
Dispatched crews, with assistance from the Idaho Department of Transportation, continued to remove mud and debris Saturday morning at that location, the department reported.
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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS.
OR GORILLA GLUE !!!!!
Yes, of course was thinking of you in Pocatello and another friend in Idaho Falls.
Yep. Looks like about a $100 million-per-foot fix to bridge that gap.
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Ahhh the makings of another CJ Box Joe Picket book👍🏻
If you look at the trees on the right-hand side of the picture they appear to be leaning away from the road. That isn’t good.
Whatever way they decide to fix this mess, just clearing the land of all those trees is major project alone.
I can attest to that here in Kansas. There is a bridge about nine miles west of me that I can’t drive over because there is a sign “Road Closed Due to Weak Bridge”. I drive over that bridge when I haul wheat to market and harvest will start in about ten days. Whatever happened to “Build Back Better” Joe?
Wow, imagine the cost and wait time for hover conversions.
That’s not going to buff out
You’re gonna need a tunnel.
5.56mm
can’t use dirt, they need lightweight fill.
Looks like they are going to need a bigger bridge.
Biden has promised to Build Back Better. In Africa.
Biden Says He’ll Help Africa ‘Build Back Better’ in a Second Term
My guess is a total reroute away from the slide area.
True that. But, Jake LaTurner, a congressman from Kansas and Jerry Moran a US Senator from Kansas, voted yeah on a bill to give Ukraine $61 billion dollars of my taxpayer dollars and not a damn nickel to improve anything in Kansas. I called the office of both of them to ask why. I still haven’t received a reply.
This will definitely need quite a bit of engineering.
With an all “woman” crew [toss in a few tranny mangers who call themselves women].
Loooks to me like when the road was built, there was a ravine or big gully at that spot. The engineers had a choice; build a short bridge across the ravine or fill it with soil hauled into that spot. They chose a fill. But the fill ground never settled and properly solidified. Comes this rainy period and fill ground slides away. Build a bridge across the ravine this time. JMHO.
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