{"id":801269,"date":"2019-11-12T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374405"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:26:38","slug":"dillon-dam-road-closed-through-friday-for-rockfall-mitigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/dillon-dam-road-closed-through-friday-for-rockfall-mitigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Dam Road closed through Friday for rockfall mitigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summit County Road & Bridge crews work to clean up a rockslide on the Dillon Dam Road in April 2006. The road will be closed through Friday, Nov. 15, for rockfall mitigation.<\/strong>
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DILLON \u2014 Dillon Dam Road is often closed during winter because of adverse conditions and icy asphalt. But Summit County government has announced the road will be closed to traffic this week for a very different reason: to prevent people from getting hit by rocks. <\/p>\n

The road between Frisco and Dillon, which runs along the top of Dillon Dam, will be closed through the end of the day Friday, Nov. 15, to perform rockfall mitigation work on the cliffside overlooking the west end of the road.<\/p>\n

Summit County Road & Bridge Director Robert Jacobs said a contractor crew will be working to clear loose rocks from the cliff face overlooking the Denver Water facility and spillway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat cliff has some chain-link fencing for some rockfall mitigation, but it hasn\u2019t been mitigated in a long time,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cWe used to do it on an annual basis, but it\u2019s been a number of years, probably five years, since we\u2019ve had someone out there to do mitigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacobs said loose rocks \u2014 big and small \u2014 have fallen on the road before but have not caused any injuries. The rockfall usually occurs in spring, and county crews clear it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, the biggest concern is injuries to motorists,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cIt\u2019s possible for grave injury to people or damage to cars. People call and report rocks like they\u2019re going to fall all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacobs said it might have been possible to do mitigation work in the morning and evening while having the road open during the day. However, that would require moving a concrete \u201cjersey barrier\u201d away and toward the cliff twice a day, with each move costing about half a day\u2019s worth of time and productivity.<\/p>\n

Instead, Jacobs said the county opted to close the road for a week while shoulder season continues and traffic is relatively low. That also maintains safety for crew members and motorists.<\/p>\n

As far as the fencing keeping rocks from falling onto the road, Jacobs said the contractor will evaluate the fences and recommend some repairs while focusing on rock removal. Even if the contractor recommends repairs, Jacobs said the county doesn\u2019t have the money to work on it this year.<\/p>\n

While the mitigation work is ongoing, traffic will need to use Interstate 70 or Swan Mountain Road as detours.<\/p>\n

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Summit County Road & Bridge crews work to clean up a rockslide on the Dillon Dam Road in April 2006. The road will be closed through Friday, Nov. 15, for rockfall mitigation.Summit Daily file photo DILLON \u2014 Dillon Dam Road is often closed during winter because of adverse conditions and icy asphalt. But Summit County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 14:53:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}