The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure was busy Thursday morning, modifying the bottom of the mountain slope at the site of Monday afternoon’s rock slide on Highway 3 between Hedley and Keremeos.
Trucks are preparing an earthern berm in the slide area as ministry engineers wait out the weather, in hopes of getting a look at the slide site high up on the mountain face.
Weather has been a major factor preventing reopening of the highway following Tuesday’s smaller rockfalls. Engineers have not had an opportunity to examine the mountain top site where the falling rock is sourced because low cloud and snow has kept the ministry’s helicopter from getting to the site.
There has been no further rockfall at the slide site since Tuesday.
