Update On Highway 22 Near Killdeer -- Still a Mess -- Moving The Road West -- $10 Million -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Updates

August 8, 2011: Work begins, but they will only get to gravel road before winter sets in; will have to wait until next year to complete.

Data points:

• 18 miles north of Killdeer, ND.
• Martin Construction, Gladstone, will relocate a half-mile section, $2 million.
• The new stretch will be gravel due to winter setting in.
• The permanent road will be completed in the spring; separately-bid project.

Original Post

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The even worse news is that it will be closed until at least the end of the year (2011), and that's if all goes well in a huge project that will involve relocating a half-mile stretch of the highway about 500 feet west and moving some 500,000 cubic yards of earth to cut down a substantial hill to do it.

"This is a very big project," said Larry Gangl, engineer for the Department of Transportation Dickinson District.

The department has already spent $700,000 to construct a temporary bypass around the slide and was just ready to open the bypass last week when the road slid a second time.

Now, the department will spend an estimated $10 million more for what it hopes is a permanent fix.