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Mother Nature delaying road repairs in the north

The District Manager with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure told MyPGNow.com they are now up to 247 sites that have been damaged by spring flooding.

Todd Hubner stated that number is unprecedented in his 20 years and a lot of them, including Quesnel-Hydraulic Road, are still too wet from all the rain to do any work on.

“It’s a very unstable slide mass and it’s not something that you can just address at the roadside, you’ve got slides within slides and the mass is so wet it’s not something that you can conceivably bring in a load of equipment and start work on it, so because of that, we don’t have a prescription on what a fix would look like at this point in time.”

He added they plan to make additional improvements to French Road that is acting as an alternate route right now.

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He says the movement that led to the road failure on Highway 97 north of Quesnel just north of the Cottonwood Bridge has now subsided so they are now looking to put a proper paved surface back on there.

Hubner mentioned they continue to monitor a couple of other areas in the North Cariboo as well.

“Knickerbocker is one that we are monitoring quite closely on Blackwater Road. That one seems to be stable at the moment. And the one out on Highway 26, what we call Robber’s Roost, that’s a historic slide that was quite active earlier in the spring. We’re just continuing to put some final touches on that one where we’ve constructed a rock buttress between the Highway and Lightning Creek, and we’re putting in a lot of internal trench streams across the Highway trying to dewater that site.”

with files from George Henderson, MyCaribooNow.com staff

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