{"id":48746,"date":"2021-02-08T16:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/expect-delays-on-colorado-145-as-boulder-blasting-continues\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:44:20","slug":"expect-delays-on-colorado-145-as-boulder-blasting-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/expect-delays-on-colorado-145-as-boulder-blasting-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect delays on Colorado 145 as boulder blasting continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:3a24026b-1d85-4ec2-b1eb-1513d678c284 --><\/p>\n<p>Travelers should expect traffic delays Monday on Colorado Highway 145 north of Dolores.<\/p>\n<p>Crews will perform blasting operations beginning about 10 a.m., which will result in a 30-minute to 1-hour traffic stop. Before and after the blasting, travelers will continue to encounter brief delays.<\/p>\n<p>Travelers are strongly urged to slow down and watch for workers and heavy equipment. Motorists should follow the guidance of a temporary, portable light signal and\/or flagging personnel. No oversize loads are permitted until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, CDOT crews blasted a 200-ton boulder that fell on the highway near Stoner. A large portion of the huge boulder still remains on the roadway and requires blasting.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Jones, of CDOT, said they drilled 25 holes in the original boulder with a rock drill where dynamite sticks were placed. Twenty of the holes were 6 feet deep, and five were 4 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen pounds of dynamite was used to blow the boulder apart. The blast sent a plume of red dust high into the air, and scattered debris across the highway. Engineers suspect freeze-thaw action caused fractures in a cliff band that resulted in the rockfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blasting and clearing rockfall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,21,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-department-of-transportation","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48746","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=48746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87449,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48746\/revisions\/87449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48746"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}