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Efforts to stop landslides on U.S. 20 have failed, leaving completion of Oregon's largest road contract in question

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The project to eliminate tight curves on U.S. 20 by building 6.5 miles of new road between Pioneer Mountain and Eddyville began in 2005. Along with the 11 new bridges, the project includes cutting new road through forest 300 to 700 feet above sea level on 30 and 40-degree slopes in rugged terrain that sees upward of 100 inches of rain in the winter. The price tag on the project, originally $150 million, is closing in on $230 million

Efforts to stop landslides on U.S. 20 have failed, leaving completion of Oregon’s largest road contract in question

Wednesday, November 30, 2011,

Major construction work on the massive project has been largely halted since February 2010 after engineers discovered that columns on two of the projects 11 bridges had moved out of plumb.  

It didn’t take much to figure out why: ancient landslides they thought they’d stopped had started up again, potentially posing a significant threat to four massive bridges — one 210 feet high and the other three each more than 100 feet high.  Full article



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