THE COPPER RIVER road is out of commission afte ra landslide buried it and dammed the river June 8. It will take time to restore access up the road. Road buried by slide won't reopen for weeks THE COPPER RIVER road will remain out of action for several weeks, forests ministry officials say. The landslide that tem- porarily dammed the river also covers the forest ser- vice road in- mud and de- bris to a depth of around 10 feet. Forest service acting operations manager Dave Bewick said it will take time for the slide debris to dry. out to the point it can be excavated and for en- gineers to then determine what repairs if any the road will need. Natural ~ gas line repaired quickly A TEMPORARY gas line is gow. in.. place: restoring normal natural gas service to Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert after a major land slide wiped out the main gas pipeline and dammed the Copper River June 8. ‘A four-inch temporary gas line has been strung across the slide area, said Pacific Northern Gas _ operations manager Rus- - sell Wintersgill. PNG had asked area re- . sidents and businesses to conserve what gas re- mained in the line while repair work was in progr- ess. - “We've completed the first phase of our tempor- ary: repair,” Wintersgill “said June 12. “We're now providing full service to all our customers.” “ ““Tt’s too early to deter- mine where a permanent repair will go or what it ~ will look like,” he said. A 4,000-foot section of 10-inch gas line was torn away when the slide oc- curred 15.5 km up the Copper River forest ser- - vice road early on June 8, Wintersgill said. Municipal pools, build- ings. and schools had all cut off gas consumption in the days after the slide. A similar slide cutting off pas service occurred in 1999 in lhe Telkwa Pass, Wintersgill added. Forests ministry acting - operations manager Dave Bewick said a 200-metres section of the logging road is buried with mud and de- bris to. a depth of more > than two metres. The slide dammed the river, backing up a small lake. : The river has since breached the pile of debris and is running through the slide material. www.pitch-in.ca “Tt could be August or it could be even a little later,” he said. “It's cer- tainly weeks. We just don’t know.” a The -blockage ofthe - road bars access for both recreational users this “summer as well as loggers. K'shian Construction has some equipment stran-" ded upstream of the: slide, where the company wan- in the air. Normally road mainte- nance is the responsibility of the licensee, in this case Skeena Cellulose. 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