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Town reacts to Boulder Canyon completion




PHOTO BY BARBARA HARDT

PHOTO BY BARBARA HARDT

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced that the Colorado Highway 119 Boulder Canyon permanent flood repair project is complete as of June 9, 2021. Earlier this week, CDOT set up a single-lane closure on CO 119 for the last time.

“All work on Colorado Highway 119 between Boulder and Nederland is now complete, including an extension of the Boulder Creek Trail. After 2.5 years of construction on the highway to help maintain access during future floods, project crews are packing up,” according to the CDOT news release.

Nederland Mayor Kristopher Larsen said it has been a long 2-1/2 half years. He would like to thank everyone in town for their patience during this time.

He would like to thank CDOT, which got communications going, and it helped mitigate the impact of the project, which included canyon conditions and the next day’s schedule for blasting. They made modifications to outreach during the project so people could plan things out, Larsen said.

As great as this feels for Nederland residents, it’s better for businesses up here, Larsen said. Businesses suffered from the canyon closures and Covid.

“Hopefully, it will be a great summer with the canyon open and no Covid regulations. Things seem to be back to normal.”

Larsen said when he was going to his office at the university, when he would get caught in the canyon, the frustration was enormous. Now he is looking forward to driving down the canyon without having to schedule around blastings and lane closures.

John Thompson with Mountain Man Outdoors Store, 20 Lakeview Dr #111, Nederland, said the completion of the project is awesome. In the beginning with the canyon closures, he had a huge slump in business. Then, when the Covid virus started, it got slow.

Then people started wanting to get away, Thompson said, and business got back to normal two months ago. Now all of his employees have been vaccinated, and the canyon has opened. It is a difference between 20 minutes with the canyon open and an hour with closures. He once sat for 35 minutes and it took an hour from Nederland to Boulder.

Doug Armitage, local resident and owner of Brightwood Music, 20 Lakeview Dr. #109, Nederland, said, “I’m so happy to see the parking lots full once again. We missed this with the canyon being partially closed.”

According to the news release: “In September 2013, flood waters saturated the mountainous terrain of Colorado Highway 119, causing numerous material slides, ditch damage and erosion to the roadway embankment. After eroding the highway embankment, the floods washed out the road in several places.

“Large amounts of debris, rock, and sediment were deposited in the creek and, as a result, redirected water flows – further contributing to the erosion of the channel banks and the undermining of the highway. Hundreds of residents were cut off from emergency services.

“The project’s long-term improvements have transformed this corridor into a safer and more resilient environment for Colorado residents every day and especially during future flood events,” according to the news release.

The complete improvements include: 13 miles of repaved highway; two miles of entirely redesigned and reconstructed highway; rock blasting to widen roadway in areas where highway was washed out; rock stabilization to prevent rock slides; cleaned, replaced or added culverts to convey stormwater drainage under the highway; new highway directional and safety signage; removal of materials placed during emergency repairs; repaired slopes where material failed in the storm; re-established native grass seed and erosion control to slopes that were disturbed during emergency recovery work; new, more effective rumble strips; concrete islands to improve the roundabout in Nederland and 3,500 feet of trail extension in partnership with Boulder County.

CDOT Region Transportation Director Heather Paddock said, “We know this project was challenging for the community during construction. We would like to thank our neighbors, especially in Nederland and throughout Boulder County, for their patience and constructive feedback throughout this process. We hope the results will improve your commutes and daily lives.”

CDOT would also like to remember founder of Blackwing Blasting, Rick Batista, who worked on this project for more than two years and was tragically killed recently while working on another rock blasting project in southern Colorado. His legacy reminds the community just how dangerous blasting work can be, and CDOT is grateful to all the men and women who worked hard to keep the safety of the crews and the traveling public a priority on this project.