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  • Bridge being built around rock slide blocking route to Yosemite

    06/22/2006 3:11:48 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 10 replies · 848+ views
    ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 6/22/06 | Juliana Barbassa - ap
    SAN FRANCISCO A bridge is being built around a rock slide that closed a main route to Yosemite National Park and disrupted business and life in the area, state transportation officials announced Thursday. The company chosen for the project, Teichert Construction, has started moving equipment and bridge parts to Highway 140, which has been blocked since April 29 by 3 million cubic yards of rock and debris. Construction can't begin until the California Department of Transportation gets all the permits needed to move through the Merced River and build on federal forest service land, but officials hope the project will...
  • Main road to Yosemite closed indefinitely

    06/02/2006 12:05:54 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 33 replies · 2,543+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/2/06 | AP
    EL PORTAL, Calif. - The main road to Yosemite National Park was closed after a rock slide buried it under 300 feet of debris and threatened to knock out electricity to the park, officials said. No one was injured in the slide about 12 miles west of the park on Highway 140, but rocks continued to fall Thursday, preventing crews from removing an estimated 250-300 tons of debris, fire officials said. It was not clear when the road would reopen. "It looks like the mountain moved right over the road," said Carrie Smith of the California Highway Patrol, who reviewed...