March 10, 2010

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Workers are trying to determine
how to keep another boulder from tumbling onto Interstate 70 in
western Colorado after a rock slide forced the highway to close
indefinitely.

The Colorado Department of Transportation says it took the crew
most of Tuesday just to reach the boulder, which sits about 900
feet above the roadway.

Transportation officials are still waiting to hear from the crew
about whether they need to do more work on the boulder.

About 20 boulders crashed onto I-70 at about midnight Sunday.

No injuries or damage to vehicles was reported, but the slide
left holes as large as 10 feet by 20 feet in an elevated section of
roadway.

A 17-mile stretch of I-70 is closed. The Transportation
Department still has no estimate of when it will reopen.