{"id":34793,"date":"2023-04-06T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-highway-184-is-reopened-after-repair\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:20:59","slug":"colorado-highway-184-is-reopened-after-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-highway-184-is-reopened-after-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Highway 184 is reopened after repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2d1ad6d8-3240-5b08-8919-dbd561e00dc6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Rapid snowmelt and rain caused flooding and the closure of Colorado Highway 184 near its intersection with U.S. Highway 491. Local traffic is allowed through via a detour on Roads 22 and U. Culvert repair is underway, and there is no estimated time for reopening the highway, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Rapid snowmelt and rain caused flooding and the closure of Colorado Highway 184 near its intersection with U.S. Highway 491. Local traffic is allowed through via a detour on Roads 22 and U. Culvert repair is underway, and there is no estimated time for reopening the highway, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Highway 184 reopened Thursday after being closed by flooding since March 14.<\/p>\n<p>A culvert became overwhelmed by  snowmelt and days of rain, which backed up water for several acres.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Department of Transportation drained the area, installed a new culvert and repaired the road.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding and closure occurred just east of the junction with U.S. Highway 491.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado 184 was closed to commercial truck traffic from its juncture with Colorado 145 to U.S. 491, but it is now open to all traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Local traffic was able to take detours around the previous closure on County Roads 22 and U.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>culvert installed; flooding caused three-week closure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-34793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82744,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34793\/revisions\/82744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34793"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=34793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}