Crews unable to assess rock slide near Keremeos, B.C. due to fog
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Crews are unable to fully assess the rockslide due to fog and there is no timeline as to when Highway 3 will reopen.
A rock slide triggered a local state of emergency near Keremeos, B.C., and forced the closure of a portion of Highway 3 Sunday night.
The highway remains closed between Hedley-Nickleplate and Ashnola roads, just west of Keremeos.
“Scattered rock debris is spread out over a 400-metre section of the road,” said the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (Moti) in a statement.
There is no timeline as to when the highway is expected to reopen as crews were unable to complete a geotechnical assessment of the area on Monday, due to fog.
The ministry says a helicopter is scheduled to fly on Tuesday to assess the damage. Until they’ve done an assessment, the portion of Highway 3 affected will remain closed.
“The big concern is being able to access the place where the source of the slide was. Unfortunately, they were only able to get within 200 meters of it and then low clouds. That means they weren’t able to see it for sure,” said RDOS Area G director Tim Roberts.
“They’re not able to get the crews in to do the maintenance either on the road and or for our power which that’s the other big concern is there’s a lot of homes now that are out of power,” said Roberts.
Fortis BC, which provides electricity in the region, said earlier the “unstable ground conditions” caused a power outage affecting 114 customers.
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