{"id":2443784,"date":"2019-05-05T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=305323"},"modified":"2019-05-05T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:01:33","slug":"rockslide-east-of-grand-junction-closes-i-70-two-women-suffered-minor-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/rockslide-east-of-grand-junction-closes-i-70-two-women-suffered-minor-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockslide east of Grand Junction closes I-70; two women suffered minor injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-05-at-10.59.19-PM-1024x483.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-05-at-10.59.19-PM-1024x483.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-05-at-10.59.19-PM-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-05-at-10.59.19-PM-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-05-at-10.59.19-PM.png 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Colorado State Patrol tweeted out this photo of a rockslide Sunday on Interstate 70 east of Grand Junction.<\/strong><br \/><em>CSP Fruita courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two women suffered minor injuries Sunday after a rockslide hit Interstate 70 in western Colorado \u2014 in DeBeque Canyon \u2014 forcing closure of I-70 eastbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not sure if the rocks hit them, or if they hit rocks that were on the road,\u201d Colorado State Patrol spokesman Ivan Alvarado said. \u201cBecause of the canyon, our dispatchers were having a hard time communicating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rockslide cut into highway traffic \u2014 the latest recent incident where the naturally unstable slopes in Colorado\u2019s mountains impeded I-70 traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Department of Transportation officials said it was unclear how much rock fell onto I-70 but some stones appeared larger than bowling balls. Rocks pounded holes in I-70 that may have to be plugged and patched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said quite a bit. We don\u2019t have a full estimate yet. It\u2019s across both lanes, the eastbound lanes,\u201d said Ted Hill, a CDOT spokesman in his agency\u2019s operations center Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/05\/rockslide-western-colorado-closes-interstate-70\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"denverpost.com (opens in a new tab)\">denverpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/rockslide-east-of-grand-junction-closes-i-70-two-women-suffered-minor-injuries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado State Patrol tweeted out this photo of a rockslide Sunday on Interstate 70 east of Grand Junction.CSP Fruita courtesy photo Two women suffered minor injuries Sunday after a rockslide hit Interstate 70 in western Colorado \u2014 in DeBeque Canyon \u2014 forcing closure of I-70 eastbound lanes. \u201cWe\u2019re not sure if the rocks hit them, [&hellip;]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 18:23:20","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}