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November 2, 2009

Crew fights time and weather to fix SR 410 after landslide

  • Wenatchee's Selland Construction has nearly 50 workers at the site, putting in 12- to 14-hour days, seven days a week.
    • By BENJAMIN MINNICK
    Journal Construction Editor

    Photos courtesy of WSDOT [enlarge]
    The October slide pushed SR 410 and the hillside into the Naches River.

    A Herculean effort is under way to restore a section of state Route 410 in Eastern Washington after a massive landslide on Oct. 11 dumped an estimated 8 million to 10 million cubic yards of earth on the highway and adjacent Naches River.


     
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