Repairs to a section of the Alaska Highway in British Columbia are expected to take more than a month. The road washed out after flooding caused by a collapsed beaver dam, Canadian officials said.
Part of the Alaska Highway in northern British Columbia closed to traffic Friday, July 1, 2022, after it collapsed due to flooding.
The highway reopened with a detour Monday after a large chunk of roadway north of Liard Hot Springs in British ColumbiaFriday, leaving a crevasse that for several days closed the main route between Alaska and the Lower 48. “The resulting runoff event carried stones and loose debris which blocked the existing culverts under the highway,” the agency said in an email Tuesday. With the culvert flow blocked, runoff backed up and eventually flowed across the surface of the road.
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